December 2011
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November 2011
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“As, then, the holy child Mary presented and offered herself to God in the temple...”
– Saint Alphonsus de Liguori (1696-1787) Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (via rudysnotes)
“Truly believing that Jesus Christ is the real purpose, center, and interpretive...”
– Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible (via invisibleforeigner)
“If believers today want to rightly understand scripture, every narrative, every...”
– Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible (via invisibleforeigner)
“Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the...”
– Benedict XVI (via sandjr)
“The Communion of Saints has something to do with the fact that the burdens we...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Because Christianity is an historical religion, based on events in time and...”
– Hugh Ross Williamson, The Great Prayer: Concerning the Canon of the Mass (1955)
“Death was not part of nature; it became part of nature. God did not decree death...”
– St. Ambrose, on the death of his brother Satyrus (via badwolfcomplex)
BECKET.: From a homily on the Dedication of the... →
becket:
From a homily on the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome by Lanspergius the Carthusian
The dedication we are celebrating today concerns, in reality, three houses. The first is the material sanctuary… Certainly, we are to pray everywhere and there is nowhere where one cannot pray….
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“Liturgy belongs in the order of doing (ergon) not of knowing (logos). Logical...”
– I. H. Dalmais, “The Liturgy as Celebration of the Mystery of Salvation”, in Principles of the Liturgy, vol. 1 of The Church at Prayer, ed. A. G. Martimort (London, 1967)
“Holy Angel of Christ, I fall down and pray to thee, my holy Guardian, given me...”
– Prayer to the Holy Guardian Angel (via allwoodsmustfail)
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“What have we done? What have we done? Christ has left us. We have driven him...”
– Athenagoras I, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
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A Liturgical Vocabulary
From Fr John Corbon’s The Wellspring of Worship:
IN THIS BOOK, in which we shall be contemplating the mystery of the liturgy from within, the reader will rarely find the learned terminology proper to formal theology or the human sciences. On the other hand, biblical revelation as actualized in the spiritual experience of the early Church could not but employ a new vocabulary to express the...
“Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is...”
– Tony Eagleton (via jamesfromta)
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ijustcametosaybonjour asked: what does being a Catholic mean to you? I might write an essay for english class on what it means to be Catholic, and... i'm kind of afraid to do it. should i do it?
