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MAUNDY THURSDAY (more to come)
We celebrate Maundy Thursday together: first all the priests together with their bishop, then all the people together with their priest. Here are two sermons preached by Pope Benedict on the...
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GOOD FRIDAY 2018: THE CROSS, GATE TO JOY.
The Cross – the One True Glorification of Godby Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) my source: Living BulwarkChrist on the Cross, by El Greco (1585-95)According to the account of the evangelists,...
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CHRIST IS RISEN!! A HAPPY EASTER TO ALL!! 2018
Exultet in the Vatican 2013Holy Saturday 2018 “So they went out and fled from the tomb, for terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid.” For...
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ORTHODOX PALM SUNDAY and LAZARUS SATURDAY
Entry Into JerusalemIn the Orthodox Church, yesterday was Palm SundayA ruler of the ancient world would make his triumphal entrance into a city on a war horse. Jesus entered Jerusalem on a donkey. This...
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MONASTIC PEACEMAKERS Collatio-dialogue in St Willibrord abbey
Roman Catholic Perspectives on PeaceExcerpt from: Called Together to be Peacemakers: Report of the International Dialogue between the Catholic Church and Mennonite World Conference: 1998-2003“Blessed...
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HAPPY EASTER TO ALL EASTERN CHRISTIANS!! CHRIST IS RISEN!! HE IS RISEN INDEED!!!
IN THE PAST, during the “golden age” of Christian liturgy, the sacrament of Baptism was performed on the paschal night as an organic part of the great annual celebration of Easter. Even today, long...
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THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST AS THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING EVERYTHING ELSEThe resurrected Jesus eats fishwith his disciples (Luke 24, 35-48)Iubilate Deo omnis terra (Introit)In St Luke's Gospel,...
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RESSOURCEMENT THEOLOGY, AGGIONAMENTO AND THE HERMANEUTICS OF TRADITION. by...
my source: Crossroads InitiativeThis article, “Ressourcement theology, aggiornamento, and the hermeneutics of tradition” by Marcellino D’Ambrosio is reprinted from Communio 18 (Winter 1991). The...
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INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK OF JOB by G. K. Chesterton
The book of Job is among the other Old Testament books both a philosophical riddle and a historical riddle. It is the philosophical riddle that concerns us in such an introduction as this; so we may...
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INEXHAUSTIBLE JOY: THE GOOD NEWS AS PROCLAIMED AT TAIZE
MY FIRST VISIT TO TAIZEby Father David Bird O.S.B.monk of Belmont Abbey (U.K.) I first visited Taize sometime after my ordination, early in 1962. I was twenty five and had just started to study at...
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A VISIT FROM THREE SISTERS OF MERCY FROM MINSK and SUBSEQUENT THOUGHTS AND...
Sisters Anna, Veronica and Helen with meLast night and today we had the great privilege of a visit from three "Sisters of Mercy" from the Russian Orthodox Convent of St Elizabeth the Royal Martyr in...
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5th SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
GOSPEL John 15:1-8Jesus said to his disciples: “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine grower. He takes away every branch in me that does not bear fruit, and every one that does...
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LIVING EUCHARISTICALLY: THE KAVASILAS OPTION and DOROTHY DAY
The Kavasilas Optionby Fr. Micah Hirschy St. Nicholas Kavasilasmy source: Public OrthodoxyMuch has been written in the last couple of years concerning the “Benedict Option.” People have found...
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OUR NEW HOME (THANKS TO THE CISTERCIAN NUNS OF LAS HUELGAS by Abbot Paul
Report on my recent visit to Peru and the move to Lurínby Abbot PaulThe Abbess of Las Huelgas, Mother Mercedes Amutio Lacalle, and the last Superior of Lurín, Mother Trinidad Ruiz Ruiz, arrived in Lima...
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ENCOUNTERING GOD IN STORIES
Not all stories are myths but they become so if they are generally accepted and told in a particular environment because they help people to understand that environment and their role in it. The...
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FEAST OF THE ASCENSION
Reflections on the Feast of the AscensionAuthor: Damian Howard SJCategory: Saints and seasons, Theology, philosophy and ethicsTags: Ascension, Eastermy source: Thinking CatholicFrom 'Scenes from the...
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THE JOURNEY OF FAITH, LIVING THE CHRISTIAN FAITH WITH J.R.R. TOLKIEN
“The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.” C.S. LewisJ.R.R. Tolkien“… we make things by the law in which we were made. We create because we are created. Creativity, imagination, is...
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RUSSIA'S TRAGEDY: Letter #30 20018 by Dr ROBERT MOYNIHAN
Dr Robert MoynihanThursday, May 24, 2018"But the priority of God, we have forgotten, concerns us all."—Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, in the Russian-language preface to a new translation of his book The...
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MAY 31st: THE VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY: MARY AS THE ARK OF THE...
INTRODUCTIONmy source: Catholic CultureOld Calendar: Corpus Christi; Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary; St. Petronilla, virginThe feast of the Visitation recalls to us the following great truths and...
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LOOKING AT "PENTECOST IS NOT THE CHURCH'S BIRTHDAY" BY FATHER STEPHEN...
Like so much Orthodox writing, there is nothing more profoundly true, more beautiful, more necessary for balancing East and West and as a corrective to popular misconception, more enlightening but also...
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THE CONVERSION STORY OF C.S. LEWIS by Andrea Monda
The most dejected, reluctant convert in all Englandmy source: EWTN"You must picture me alone in that room at Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my...
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MYTHS, MONKS AND MONASTERIES
INTRODUCTION by G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis & Fr Roger Peck"This elementary wonder, however, is not a mere fancy derived from the fairy tales; on the contrary, all the fire of the fairy tales is...
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CHURCHES, ANCIENT AND MODERN
Pope Benedict XVI consecrating the altar of La Sagrada Familia "The liturgy is the time of God and space of God, and we must put ourselves there in the time of God, in the space of God, and not look at...
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JUNE 29TH 2018: ST PETER AND PAUL
SOLEMNITY OF STS PETER AND PAULHOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVISt Peter's BasilicaWednesday, 29 June 2005Dear Brothers and Sisters,The Feast of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul is at the same time a...
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MONASTIC LIFE IN EAST AND WEST:: LEARNING TO PUT GOD FIRST
The origins and motivations of monasticismWritten by Newman Nahas, M.Phil.http://www.monachos.net/content/monasticism/monastic-studies/92From its inception, Christianity produced many who, while...
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