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Read the full article here: Christianity - Alien Presence or Foundation of the West? I see the situation of Christianity in Europe to be rather exciting and full of opportunity. A foreign body in Europe and also a root: that is the exciting position of Christianity in secular Europe.... View post: Christianity - Alien Presence or Foundation of the West? Read the full article here: Saint Polycarp, early bishop and martyr, remembered Feb. 23 Denver, Colo., Feb 20, 2011 / 08:11 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- On Feb. 23, the Catholic Church will remember the life and martyrdom of St. Polycarp, a disciple of the apostle and evangelist St. John. Polycarp is celebrated on the same date by Eastern Orthodox Christians, who also honor him as a saint. Polycarp is known to later generations primarily through the account of his martyrdom, rather than by a formal biography. However, it can be determined from that account that he was born around the year 69 AD. From the testimony he gave to his persecutors – stating he had served Christ for 86 years – it is clear that he was either raised as a Christian, or became one in his youth... View post: Saint Polycarp, early bishop and martyr, remembered Feb. 23 Popular Topics:Please click the link to read the reflection on today's Gospel: This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about... December 25 th , Christmas Day On this Christmas day, we take a moment to meditate upon the Nativity of Christ our Lord. Here follows the revelation of the Birth of Christ, as it was given to St. Bridget. "When I was present by the manger of the Lord in Bethlehem I beheld a Virgin of extreme beauty wrapped in a white mantle and a delicate tunic through which I perceived her virginal body. With her was an old man of great honesty and they had with them an ox and ass. These entered the cave and the man having tied them to the manger went out and brought in to the Virgin a lighted candle which having done he again went outside so as not to be present at the birth. Then the Virgin pulled off the shoes from her feet, drew off the white mantle that enveloped her, removed the veil from her head laying it beside her, thus remaining only in her tunic with her beautiful golden hair falling loosely over her shoulders. Then she produced two small linen cloths, and two woollen ones of exquisite purity and fineness which she had brought to wrap round the Child to be born, and two other small cloths to cover His head, and these too she put beside her... See the article here: This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about... Read this article: Ontario RC bishops’ curriculum advisor appears to accept gay positive school texts by Patrick B. Craine TORONTO, Ontario, February 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - At a major Ontario government equity and inclusive education conference last month, the head of the body charged by Ontario’s Catholic Bishops with overseeing curriculum joined in a presentation that assumed Catholic elementary schools would… ... Read this article: Ontario RC bishops’ curriculum advisor appears to accept gay positive school texts Read the rest here: Feb 05 - Homily: Good Body Bad Inclinations The virtue of Chastity goes along with the virtue of Temperance. In our culture today there is no such thing as an unchaste person, because the media promotes satisfying your every bodily desire since the body is good. The body is good but it does have a fall nature with an inclination toward evil behavior Ave Maria! Mass: St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr - - Form: EF, Gaudeamus Readings:
Read the rest here: Feb 05 - Homily: Good Body Bad Inclinations Go here to see the original: True Love Defined By DEBORAH GYAPONG (CNS) | OTTAWA, Ontario (CNS) — Canada’s Catholic bishops invited young people to lead lives of chastity in a new pastoral letter. Describing chastity as “more than the absence of sexual relations,” the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Episcopal Commission on Doctrine said living a chaste life “calls for purity of mind as well as body.” Issued Jan. … ... Go here to see the original: True Love Defined Popular Topics:Please click the link to read the reflection on today's Gospel: The heart of St. Thomas Aquinas There are only three hearts, as far as I know, which are regularly depicted in the Catholic artistic tradition – the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the heart of St. Thomas Aquinas. Now let me be clear, I am not claiming that the sunburst so often depicted on St. Thomas’ breast is literally his heart – neither, of course, are the images of Christ’s or Mary’s Hearts depictions of physical organs – but it is quite striking that the sunburst is over the Common Doctor’s heart (and not, for example, upon his brow). I do not in any sense intend to equate St. Thomas’ sunburst with the Hearts of Jesus and Mary, but it will be good for us to consider the simple fact: No other saint’s heart is regularly depicted in Christian art. There are, certainly, many saints whose hearts might have been given this focus – consider St. Philip Neri, whose heart was physically enlarged with Love; or St... Link: The heart of St. Thomas Aquinas Popular Topics:Go straight to: The Chattering Classes Are Us Catholics once had an intuitive understanding of sacred space: To enter a church, especially in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament, was to enter a different kind of environment, one of the hallmarks of which was a reverent silence. Some of that intuition remains. But much of it has been lost. Thus, within the past few months, I have noted three habitual behaviors, not in parishes that are otherwise sloppy in their liturgical practice, but precisely in parishes that take their liturgical life seriously: 1) The demarcation between the narthex (or, as they say in AmChurchSpeak, the “gathering space”) and the body of the church (a.k.a. the “worship space”) has been severely eroded. Conversations begun in the narthex often continue when people reach the pews; new conversations are initiated in the pews. Both types of conversation sometimes continue during the choral prelude, if there is one. In any case, the new convention seems to be that in-pew conversations are quite appropriate until the processional hymn is announced... Read more from the original source: The Chattering Classes Are Us Popular Topics:Here is the original post: Because His Real Presence Cannot Be Destroyed During a recent family tour of colleges in the Carolinas, it became clear that Duke University isn't exactly a center of Catholic culture. The interdenominational chapel at this university founded by Methodists features statues (I found that deliciously ironic), including one of John Wyclif, who, in 1380 attacked the Eucharist by calling it merely "an effectual sign." Go directly to: Vatican workers already preparing for beatification of John Paul II Workers at the Vatican have already begun preparations for transferring the body of Pope John Paul II, in anticipation of his beatification. The body of the late Pope, currently buried ...... Read the rest here: Vatican workers already preparing for beatification of John Paul II Link: Preparations underway in chapel for John Paul II's beatification According to Vatican sources, this is the chapel where the body of John Paul II will rest once he has been beatified. It's located within Saint Peter's Basilica, next to the sculpture of the Pietà, in the chapel of Saint Sebastian, which has until now held the remains of the pope from 1689, Innocent XI. With great care and absolute discretion, Vatican workers are gradually removing the tiles and decorations of this chapel, in order to prepare a new area that will house the tomb of the future blessed John Paul II. The transfer of the body is expected before late October, after the possible beatification.
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See the rest here: Images of the chapel that may house the body of John Paul II in St. Peter's Basilica Read full article here: The Year of Living Anxiously Phyllis Scheck, age 79; Dorthy Morris, age 76; Dorwin Stoddard, age 76; Judge John Roll, age 63; Gabriel Zimmerman, age 30; Christina Green, age 9. As you read this, those six human beings–mostly anonymous to the world but beloved of their families and friends–are being grieved, waked, remembered, mourned, celebrated and interred. They were murdered at a shopping center, on January 8 by an incoherent, mentally ill young man who was somehow able to get hands on a gun. With the exception of Zimmerman and Green, the dead were senior citizens. Had they not been killed, it is likely that a couple of them would have lived long enough to observe the nation enter into serious discussion about what will be the defining issue of the new decade: the value of human life when it is “advanced” in age, imperfect in form, and too expensive to justify on the healthcare spread sheets. They are now past wondering if the lives they had, and wished to keep, would pass cost-analysis muster. In the language of the most-compassionate among us, they—and their families—have been “spared” those “quality of life” anxieties... Read the original: The Year of Living Anxiously See more here: Catholic Christendom College Closes Again for March for Life Christendom College, a faithful Catholic institution, plans to close again to allow students and staff to attend the March for Life in Washington. The Virginia-based college will close its doors on Monday, January 24, and its Student Activities Council will charter busses enabling the entire student body to attend the 2011 March for Life in ... See more here: Catholic Christendom College Closes Again for March for Life Popular Topics: |
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