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THE HOLY TRADITION AND THE VENERATION OF MARY AND OTHER SAINTS IN THE...
In preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8th, I am going to give my readers a number of posts from different sources on the Blessed Virgin Mary, not to hide where we...
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HENRI de LUBAC AND CATHOLIC RENEWAL by Peter J.. Leithart
This article is of great importance for anyone who wants to know how to interpret Vatican II or to value its effects on the Church, or who wish to understand why de Lubac, Bouyer, Ratzinger and other...
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ABBOT PAUL'S HOMILY FOR ALL SAINTS & AN ORTHODOX SERMON ON THE SAME THEME
All Saints 2013 “I saw a huge number, impossible to count, of people from every nation, race, tribe and language; they were standing in front of the throne of the Lamb, dressed in white...
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THE CHRISTIAN WITNESS OF THE MONASTERY OF ST JAMES THE MUTILATED, MAR YAKUB
Mar Yakub- Situated at the foot of Anti-Lebanon, on a plateau of 1350 m. is the monastery of Mar Yakub (St. James the Mutilated) in Qâra. This monasterydates from the 6th century and is perhaps the...
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THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH MUST BE PROPHETIC by Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev
my source: The Moynihan LettersYour Holinesses and Beatitudes, Your Eminences and Graces, dear brothers and sisters, esteemed delegates of the Assembly:The World Council of Churches has a long and rich...
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THE HOLINESS OF THE MOTHER OF GOD IN EAST AND WEST (also NEW LINKS TO POSTS...
The Immaculate Conception: The Holiness of the Mother of God in East and WestDr. Alexander Roman alex.roman@unicorne.orgThe dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, proclaimed by...
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THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH AND ONE OF ITS GREATEST SONS, SAINT ISAAC THE SYRIAN
Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a 7th- or 8th-century wall painting from a Nestorian church in China, Tang Dynasty THE HISTORY OF THE ASSYRIAN CHURCH OF THE EASTmy source: The...
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METROPOLITAN HILARION ALFEYEV OF VOLOKOLAMSK ON THE PERSECUTION OF...
Speech by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk at the OSCE high- level meeting ‘Preventing and Responding to Hate Incidents and Crimes against Christians’(Rome, Italy, 12 September 2011)my source:...
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FROM WANTAGE TO OLD OSCOTT: THE ANGLICAN COMMUNITY AND ITS NEW CATHOLIC...
The Community of St Mary the Virgin was founded in 1848 by William John Butler, then Vicar of Wantage in Oxfordshire. It remains one of the oldest surviving Religious Communities in the Church of...
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THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN THE 21st CENTURY: AN ORTHODOX BISHOP'S PERSPECTIVE...
my source: CommunioThursday, 15 January 2009 19:00 I am presenting excerpts of a lecture delivered by Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev at the Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, October...
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THE SPIRITUAL FATHER IN ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
source: Orthodox Christian Information CentreOne who climbs a mountain for the first time needs to follow a known route; and he needs to have with him, as companion and guide, someone who has been up...
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THE ICON IS MAKING ITS WAY IN AMERICA
my source: Orthodox Arts Journal ( an excellent website)“The Icon is Making its Way in America”, an interview with Ksenia PokrovskyDecember 5, 2013By Mary LowellThe life of Ksenia Pokrovsky (March 9,...
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A TASTE OF RUSSIAN MONASTICISM
my source: RocaThe Fathers of Russian Monasticism St. Anthony of the Kiev Caves (July 10) St. Theodosius of the Kiev Caves (May 3) A nun of St Elizabeth's Monastery in Minsk gave me an icon of these...
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ABBOT CHRISTOPHER'S FORWARD TO THE VATICAN II DOCUMENT "LUMEN GENTIUM" ON THE...
THE DOGMATIC CONSTITUTION ON THE CHURCH - A Forwardmy source: Vatican II, Voice of the ChurchIntroduction to Butler’s Text The following text by the then Abbot BC Butler OSB was the...
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OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE
OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE AND ST JUAN DIEGOby Mark Armstrongmy source: taken from The Integrated Catholic LifeNearly 12 years after the Spanish landed and nine years after the end of hostilities, there had...
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THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
CHRISTUS VINCIT The royal banners forward go,The cross shines forth in mystic glow;Where He in flesh, our flesh who made,Our sentence bore, our ransom paid.Where deep for us the spear was dyed,Life’s...
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THE RELATIONSHIP OF POPE FRANCIS TO POPE JOHN PAUL II & POPE BENEDICT XVI
I am just a little younger, by a few months, than Pope Francis, which means that I was a priest student of theology and he was a Jesuit student at the time of the Council. It was a wonderful time to...
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HERMITS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY OF MOUNT CARMEL Mt. Carmel HermitageP.O. Box 337Christoval, Texas 76935-0337 My IntroductionAs far as I understand, there are two Carmelite monasteries of hermits and...
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A HAPPY AND HOLY CHRISTMAS!!
A HAPPY AND HOLY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALLMAY CHRIST AND HIS BLESSED MOTHER BLESS YOU ALL A Nativity Sermon by Pope St Leo the Great Dearly beloved, today our Savior is born; let us rejoice. Sadness should...
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DECEMBER 25th; CHRISTMAS DAY
URBI ET ORBI MESSAGE OF POPE FRANCISCHRISTMAS 2013Wednesday, 25 December 2013Glory to God in the highest heaven,and on earth peace among those whom he favours (Lk 2:14)Dear brothers and sisters in Rome...
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