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A NEW WEBSITE ON ORTHODOXY, SYNODALITY & STARTING WITH THE HOLY AND GREAT...
SOBORNOST AND ECCLESIAL LOVE"Monks and Mermaids" has over two thousand posts. Here is a multi-media, multi-source website with the posts referring to Orthodoxy, Synods, particularly the "Holy and Great...
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I finish my two weeks in Ukraine on Tuesday, September 20th. Once back at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, I must learn to download my photos so that I can illustrate an account of my stay with the Basilian...
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POPE FRANCIS AND UNIVERSAL SYNODS
Sandro Magister, like much of the press, has a "cowboys and Indians" approach to disagreement in the Church. A division borrowed from secular politics is used to interpret the facts. The Church...
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POPE FRANCIS, BENEDICTINE MONKS AND NUNS, AND MERCY; POPE FRANCIS TO THE...
FRANCIS: Speech to participants at the Congress of Benedictine Abbots8th September 2016Dear Fathers Abbot, Dear Sisters:With joy I greet you all. I greet the Abbot Primate, Dom Notker Wolf, whom I...
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SEPT. 29th 2016, FEAST OF ST MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS - DIAMOND JUBILEE OF...
HOMILY FOR THE FEAST OF ST MICHAEL & ALL ANGELSpreached by Dom David Birdat Belmont Abbey (UK)Angels are out of fashion, but people are fascinated by devils. Films about possession and exorcism...
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SYNODALITY AND PRIMACY DURING THE FIRST MILLENNIUM: TOWARDS A COMMON...
ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE PERMANENTDELEGATION TO THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHESHOMEDOCUMENTSJoint International Commission for Theological Dialoguebetween the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox...
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THIS WEEK IS A SPECIAL ANGLICAN - CATHOLIC UNITY WEEK
Archbishop of Canterbury to visit Pope in RomeFriday 30th September 2016my source: Justin Welby Archbishop of CanterburyArchbishop Justin Welby and Pope Francis (will be) [is] celebrating 50 years of...
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CATHOLIC AND ORTHODOX FIND COMMON GROUND IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHURCH...
Catholic and Orthodox find common ground in early Church understandingMember of ecumenical panel explains why the dialogue's latest document is significant Shawn Neal John Burger October 3, 2016His...
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THE REFORM OF THE REFORM, POPE FRANCIS AND CARDINAL SARAH
This article by Sandro Magister is a very good example of news interpreted to fit a newsman's agenda. The facts are there, but I believe that the interpretation is haywire. The reform of the reform...
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LETTER TO IVAN ON THE PRO'S AND CON'S OF VATICAN II
Ivan is a friend of mine whom I first met while I was guest of St Elizabeth's Orthodox Convent in Minsk. He is now married and a seminarian in the Orthodox seminary. We have kept up contact, and...
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THE HOLY PROTECTION OF MARY, MOTHER OF MERCY (ORTHODOX AND CATHOLIC)
THE HOLY PROTECTION OF THE THEOTOKOSMARY, MOTHER OF GODplease click on:-THE MYSTERY OF MARYby Mary Cunningham (Ancient Faith Radio)Pope Francis: Mary is the 'mother of forgiveness' Pope Francis prays...
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SAINT JOSE SANCHEZ DEL RIO, MEXICAN MARTYR
Pope Francis pays his homage to the remains of child-martyr José Sanchez del Rio, in Morelia's Cathedral Mexico - APOn reading this article, I remember the men, women and children put to death for...
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EAST AND WEST ENRICH EACH OTHER plus SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS AND THE ORTHODOX EAST
IntroductionBecause of the years of dialogue after the second world war between the Catholic ressourcement theologians who were living under a cloud of Vatican suspicion in France, and the refugee...
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OCTOBER 28th DURING THE PURPLE MONTH - EL SENOR DE LOS MILAGROS - THE LARGEST...
It is said that this procession is the largest Catholic procession in the world. According to Raúl Porras Barrenechea, it was painted by a freed Angolan slave called Pedro Dalcon , also called...
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MAMA MAGGIE GOBRAN, "MOTHER TERESA" OF CAIRO
Mama Maggie: the 'Mother Teresa of Cairo' inspires Coptic ChristiansBy Lauren Green Published April 03, 2015 FoxNews.comThe brutal beheadings of 21 Coptic Christians at the hands of ISIS terrorists...
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NOVEMBER 3RD: SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES, THE SAINT OF LIMA
my source: Order of PreachersMiamoto was part of an anthropology and dentistry group that spoke at a Nov. 3 presentation on the reconstructed face of the Peruvian saint.The presentation coincided with...
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THE CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST WITNESSES TO US IN THE WEST
By Andrea GagliarducciMinya, Egypt, Jul 19, 2016 / 12:08 am (CNA/EWTN News).- For Christians in Egypt, the possibility of martyrdom is not a remote one.“It is something they concretely feel, it is part...
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MY VISIT TO UKRAINE - I LVIV
YOUTH PILGRIMAGE, ALL NIGHT VIGILLAVRA OF THE HOLY DORMITIONUNIVGALICIA, WESTERN UKRAINEI accepted a two-week holiday in Ukraine with a certain amount of hesitation because up till then I had done...
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THE SOLEMNITY 0F CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE (PLUS) HOW GOD CAME TO BE KING...
JESUS CHRIST - LORD OF THE UNIVERSERAVENNAListen to the Divine Office in the Abbey du Barroux The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, commonly referred to as the Feast of Christ...
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THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM by Father David (plus)THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE...
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOMThe basic problem between the Catholic and Orthodox churches is that, when the schism happened neither church was aware of any breach on its part with the tradition that it had...
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