OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE (REVISED)
A CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS RELATED TO THE MIRACLE1474 An Indian named Quauhtlatoatzin was born in Cuautitlan.1476 Juan de Zumarraga was born in Spain.1492 Christopher Columbus landed on an island in...
View ArticleTHE BLESSED VIRGIN COMPARED TO THE AIR WE BREATHE by Gerard Manley Hopkins...
IN HONOUR OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE ON HER FEASTDAY (source: Paying Attention To The Sky) The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe Gerard Manley Hopkins Wild air,...
View ArticleTHE BLESSED VIRGIN (CO-REDEMPTION) IN THE THOUGHT OF FR HANS URS VON...
my source: Christendom AwakeIn looking at what the Swiss dogmatician Hans Urs von Balthasar has to say about our theme, I propose to divide up my materials into three piles, and I shall call these,...
View ArticleVALAAM: ARCHIPELAGO OF MONKS (ORTHODOX) In French
OFFICIAL SITE OF VALAAM MONASTERY(CLICK)STEPS TO THE STARS (LIFE IN THE MONASTERY OF VALAAM (click)
View ArticleGAUDETE SUNDAY & THE MASSACRE OF CHILDREN
We were probably all shocked by what happened on Friday morning in Newtown, Connecticut, where a young man called Adam Lanza, after murdering his own mother, went into a primary school with two hand...
View ArticleSEEKING GOD'S WILL - Five Principles of Discernment by Dr Peter Kreeft
my source: The Integrated Catholic LifeDr. Peter Kreeft | November 27, 2012 Does God have one right choice for me in each decision I make?When we pray for wisdom to discern God’s will when it comes...
View ArticleST NICHOLAS: CHRISTMAS 2012
Metropolitan Hilarion: St. Nicholas was the bishop of the city of Myra in Lycia (today this city is called Demre and is located in Turkey) and lived in the fourth century. Surprisingly little...
View ArticleTHE FUTURE OF THE CHURCH IN ENGLAND by Fr Aidan Nichols O.P.
Fr Aidan Nichols OP on The Future of the Church in England from Clare Bowskill on Vimeo.
View ArticleWHY DID GOD BECOME MAN? according to St Athanasius by Rev. Dr George Dion Dragas
my source: MystagogyINTRODUCTION“God became man that we may become gods” (St. Athanasios).The Incarnation of God is the foundation of the Christian faith. Christ is the Son and Logos (Word) of God who...
View ArticleCHRISTMAS WITH TWO FATHERS & VIDEOS
A CHRISTMAS STORY BY LEO TOLSTOY THE FOURTH WISE MAN THE THEOTOKOS AS MYSTICAL THEOLOGIAN: ST. GREGORY PALAMAS’ SERMONS ON THE VIRGIN MARYby Manuel Sumaresmy source: Cristo e a Cidade "Along with...
View ArticleHOMILY OF ABBOT PAUL AT MIDNIGHT mASS
HAPPY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!Christmas Eve 2012 “Do not be afraid. Behold, I bring you news of great joy, a joy to be shared by the whole people.” So began the angels their message to the shepherds...
View ArticleWHY GOD? by Maureen Dowd (The New York Times / December 25, 2012)
(thanks to Jim Forest)WHY GOD?When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew the perfect man, a friend of...
View ArticleAN ORTHODOX MONASTERY IN POLAND
my source:http://www.en.monasterujkowice.pl/Orthodox Monastery of the sts. Cyril and Methodius in Ujkowice (Poland) In the summer of 1986, two hieromonks, Fr.Nikodem and Fr.Atanazy, settled in...
View ArticleTHE PRIMACY OF CHARITY by Mgr Paul McPartlan
A PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL AND VATICAN II by Peter de MeyProfessor of the Catholic University of Louvain
View ArticleDOM GUÉRANGER'S INFLUENCE ON THE LITURGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY; ESPECIALLY...
My monastery, Belmont Abbey in Hereford was founded in 1859, and the opening Mass was celebrated by Dom P. Gueranger, even though it belongs to the English Benedictine Congregation. Belmont was the...
View ArticleTHE HOLY FAMILY AND MONASTIC LIFE
MONASTIC CONFERENCE GIVEN BY FR DAVID (in Spanish) AT PACHACAMAC ( Feast of St Thomas a Becket, 29th December), "This Christmas Octave gives us various themes, all of which reflect on the central theme...
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