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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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