Let’s Get Cuaresma-tic!
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Church in the World, Liturgy
It is Ash Wednesday, and the Season of Lent begins once more. For this season, I offer a set of links to articles on this site that appropriately describe the season. The ashen cross reminds us of the ...
Christian Life, Church in the World, Spirituality
St. Valentine is not just one saint, there are three mentioned in different martyrologies connected to February 14: St. Valentine, priest-martyr during the time of Emperor Claudius II, St. Valentine, Bishop of Terni (venerated in the Eastern Churches), and a ...
St. Valentine and his Dublin Shrine
{ No Comment \ Tags: dublin, ireland, martyrs, st. valentines \ Feb13 }
Lectio Divina, Scriptures
Guy the Carthusian is the author of the Scala Claustralium, our main source for what is called the lectio divina which the Catholic Catechism presents as the way of reading the Scriptures. I have on several occassions written about ...
An Old Monk Thinks About Happiness
{ No Comment \ Tags: lectio divina \ Feb10 }
Scriptures, Spirituality
Last Sunday, as I preached on the Parable of the Sower, I mentioned that at a time when Christians didn’t have the luxury of owning a copy of the Scriptures, they went to Sunday Mass, the only place where they ...
Like a Ruminant
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Fathers of the Church
For the 22nd Sunday of OT (A), the liturgy proposes for our reflection the Way of the Cross. The selection from Matthew 16:21-28 is associated with Romans 12:1-2, a passage that when understood in the light of Matthew 16:21-28 highlights ...
Our Way of the Cross
{ 1 Comment \ Tags: homilies, sermons \ Feb10 }
Catechism
The history of salvation is also the history of a seed that God nurtures through the vicissitudes of human events and brings it into fruition. "I shall put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed. ...
The Seed and Life
{ No Comment \ Tags: benedict xvi, salvation history \ Feb10 }
Lectio Divina, Scriptures
The BEC is not a bible study group. It is rather the weekly gathering of groups of the faithful to prepare themselves for the Sunday liturgy so as to be more ready to live the Word of God in ...
From Bible Study to Prayer and Contemplation
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Catechism, Christian Life, Christology
And at three o'clock Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Mark 15:34, NAB)
The first time my attention was called to this passage ...
Jesus’ Cry on the Cross
{ No Comment \ Tags: benedict xvi, fisichella, mark, mystery of evil, ravasi, suffering \ Feb10 }
Scriptures
"You have taken off the old man with its practicesand have put on the new man, which is being renewed, by knowledge, according to the image of its creator"(Col. 3:9b-10)
Read "Put on the New Man"
Old Man and New Man
{ No Comment \ Tags: colossians, paul \ Feb9 }
Catechism, Scriptures, Spirituality
A propos the Pope's message for World Day of Communications, Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, a world-renowned exegete comments on the theme of God's silence. God's silence, he writes, has two faces, one luminous, the other dark. One is revelatory, ...
Even God Can Be Silent
{ No Comment \ Tags: pope benedict xvi, ravasi, silence \ Feb9 }
