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A CURRENT OF GRACE: THE CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL
Pope at Audience: Use Your God-Given Giftsmy source: ZenitUrges Faithful to Use Charisms to Build Church, Promote UnityVatican City, October 01, 2014 (ZENIT.org) Deborah Castellano Lubov HOLY SPIRIT...
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SCRIPTURE, THE GOSPEL, ORTHODOXY AND EVANGELISM
SCRIPTURE, THE GOSPEL, AND ORTHODOXYmy source: Blagoslavie.ruThe relationship between Scripture, the Gospel and Orthodoxy is a huge topic, but is indisputably important. In fact, speaking accurately...
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HUMILITY IS THE FOUNDATION AND ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY
On the Feast of the Kazan IconOur Lady of Kazan, also called Theotokos of Kazan (Russian: Казанская Богоматерь tr. Kazanskaya Bogomater'), was a holy icon of the highest stature within the Russian...
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THE TEACHINGS OF ST JOHN CASSIAN ON PRAXIS AND CONTEMPLATION by Alexey Fokin
1. Introduction.As is well known, St. John Cassian (c. 360-435), known in the Byzantine and Russian tradition as Roman[1], occupies an important place among ascetic writers and theologians of the...
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THE CHALLENGE OF 20TH CENTURY SAINTS: MARIA SKOBTSOVA, ALEXANDR SCHMORELL &...
Source: In CommunionJim Forest | 31 March 2015Mother Maria Skobtsova — now recognized as Saint Maria of Paris — died in a German concentration camp on the 30th of March 1945.The Challenge of a 20th...
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JUSTIN WELBY OF CANTERBURY, POPE FRANCIS, N.T. WRIGHT, FATHER STEPHEN...
ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBYON EVANGELISATIONThe Archbishop of Canterbury has set out his vision for a Church in which every Christian shares "the revolutionary love" of Jesus Christ. "The best decision...
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AT THE TURN OF THE 20th CENTURY: A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHARISMATIC...
by(Kim Catherine-Marie Kollins)Blessed Elena Guerra, founder of the Oblate Sisters of the Holy Spirit in Lucca, Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, urged Pope Leo XIII to lead the Church back...
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BECOMING THE GOSPEL: THE EXAMPLE OF FOUR SAINTS by Jim Forest
Once more, so soon after the last one, another post on St Mary of Paris because today is her feastday in the Julian Calendar, and because I couldn't resist the temptation. She is a living example of...
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TWO SAINTS BEFORE THE CROSS
This post consists of two articles, one on the Cross by St Maria Skobtsova and the other about St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross and her relationship with the Cross. One saint is Orthodox and the other...
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CHESTERTON, TOLKIEN AND LEWIS IN ELFLAND by Joseph Pearce
Lord of the Ringsmy source: The Imaginative ConservativeIt is difficult to overstate the influence of G.K. Chesterton. Apart from the numerous converts who have come to Christianity, at least in part,...
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THE FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD, 2015: A HOMILY PREACHED AT THE...
painted by a monk of PachacamacDo you know why we celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6th? It is because this date is forty days before the Exaltation of the Holy Cross,, and...
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JOHN MILBANK: THE EASTWARD MOVEMENT OF WESTERN THEOLOGY & THEOSIS: THE REASON...
St. Nicholas: Not to be confused with Santa (Dionysus, Saint Nicholas, 1502; Source Wikimedia Commons, author: Vash Alex kun, PD-Old-100).What John Milbank, author of Theology and Social Theory, calls...
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IN COMPANIONSHIP WITH THE GODS by Roland Hill
It was certainly unusual for the German Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper to attract compliments from two well-known writers in England, T. S. Eliot and C. S. Lewis, for expressing his views with such...
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MONASTICISM AND EVANGELISATION FROM TWO PERSPECTIVES (plus) WHERE RUPTURE WAS...
Mysticism, Monasticism, and the New EvangelizationApril 04, 2014my source: Catholic World ReportThe New Evangelization requires a rediscovery of Christian mysticism, and a revival of the monastic...
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THE TEMPLE AND THE CHURCH
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from...
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THE DORMITION/ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, THE THEOTOKOS. (Thanks...
Today, on the Gregorian calendar, is the feast of the Dormition (or the Assumption, as it best known in the West). Here is a reflection by the 7th century monk, poet and theologian St John of...
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THE CHURCH, THE EUCHARIST AND THE POPE IN CATHOLIC - ORTHODOX DIALOGUE (A...
If the Church is regarded as one, then the Pope, as its head, represents the whole; if it is regarded as a multiple reality, then the Pope is only a part. The Fathers sometimes looked at it in one way...
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THE BEAUTY OF HOLINESS, A HOMILY BY THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY; THE STORY...
The Archbishop of Canterbury mentions St. Elisabeth the New Martyr in his homilySource: The Archbishop of Canterbury07 July 2015The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, conducted the baptism of...
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JULY 11th, 2015: THE FEAST OF OUR HOLY FATHER ST BENEDICT
Venerable Benedict of NursiaCommemorated in the Orthodox Church on March 14, as a Solemnity by the Benedictine Order on March 21st, and by the Catholic Church in general on July 11th.Troparion &...
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TO LIGHT A CANDLE RATHER THAN TO CURSE THE DARK: THE CHURCH AND HOMOSEXUALITY
Right and Wrong: COMMENTS ON RIGHT AND WRONG: CATHOLIC RESPONSES TO SCOTUSmy source: Pro UnioneFor Catholic Christians, there is a right way and a wrong way to disagree with the #SCOTUS ruling against...
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