In the Old City of Jerusalem for centuries people of the Jewish faith have been writing prayers on pieces of paper and placing them between the massive stones of the Western Wall (Hebrew: הכותל המערבי, translit.: HaKotel HaMa’aravi – hence often referred to simply as the Kotel = wall. Arabic: حائط البراق, translit.: Ḥā’iṭ Al-Burāq)
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It can regularly spoil a joke to need to explain it. In this case the Monsignor [Failblog FAILS! in calling him a “cardinal” – this is clearly NOT a cardinal] confuses the microphone that he has just been speaking into with the aspergillum (seen 0:20), a similarly shaped object used for sprinkling with Holy Water.
If social media is here to stay – how is the church responding? How is your parish or Christian community participating? The seven last words of a Christian community are, “we never did it like that before.” There are now a number of different ways that people can be present in web 2.0. It appears
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Brother Roger was born in Provence in Switzerland in 1915 the ninth and youngest child of a Protestant minister’s family. He studied theology at Strasbourg and Lausanne. In 1940 he left Switzerland for his mother’s native France. In 1940, he biked from Geneva to Taizé, a small village in Burgundy near Cluny. Taizé was at
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Click for my reflection on Mary’s feast day. The origin of the feast day of the Blessed Virgin Mary on August 15 is unknown. It is possibly the date of the dedication of some church in her name. Some quotes worthy of reflection from Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ – joint statement of the
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In 1998 statues of ten modern martyrs were unveiled on the West of the (Anglican) Westminster Abbey. Maximilian Kolbe, whose feast day is today (August 14), is one of them. He grew up in Poland at the end of the nineteenth century. He decided to become a Franciscan. Fr. Kolbe set up what he called
I have been staggered by the interest in liturgy and spirituality on twitter. Over 18,000 people follow @liturgy making my twitter profile the sixth most followed Kiwi on twitter! For those unaware, twitter is a micro-blogging platform limiting posts to 140 characters or less. The recent purchase of FriendFeed by Facebook, and possible development of
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Thanks to Deacon John Giglio for emailing the following, and biretta tip to Fr. Tomas Del Valle-Reyes for writing it – a bit of a chuckle in this Year for Priests – but with a point (as with all good humour) – and I’m sure criticism is relevant in other contexts than priests… If the
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