This week Jesus’ liturgical facepalm is awarded to those who refuse to bless children at communion time. E-popular Roman Catholics Fr. John Zuhlsdorf and Deacon Greg Kandra helped viralise Father Cory Sticha’s blog post, Why I refuse to bless children at Communion. The key, according to them, is Sacrosanctum Concilium (paragraph 22): “Therefore no other
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The Sign: The Shroud of Turin and the Secret of the Resurrection Yes, it’s that time of year again when the gullible hand over their money [me included] and their brains to the latest theory to attempt to undermine Christianity. I am a shroudie. I do not “believe” in the shroud. Just as I do
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…crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus, descendit ad inferos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis… he descended to the dead… the Harrowing of Hell… Acts 2:27; Acts 2:31; 1 Peter 3:19-20; 1 Peter 4:6; 2 Corinthians 2:14; Ephesians 4:8-10; Zechariah 9:11; Psalm 68:17-18; Isaiah 24:21-22 …to save all of those who died in sin … starting with Adam
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OK – so there’s a few obsessions that Bosco has: collects, unfussy worship, allowing symbols to speak for themselves,… and… that Easter is fifty days. Great Christian festivals begin in the evening after sunset, are celebrated through the day and on into the next evening. But Bosco thinks Easter begins in the evening with the
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This is the recent lecture by Fr John Behr at Augustine College. Fr John is Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary (New York, USA), where he teaches Patristics. The lecture is an hour long – but/and worth it. Fr John challenges the pulp and popular positions that early catholicity was monolithic, autocratic, homogeneous; despoiling
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The two-millionth visitor to this site came and went and we didn’t have a little online party! Sorry. I could make lots of pious, liturgical points about the inappropriateness of having a party (virtual or not) during Holy Week, and how the celebration has been transfered to the first possible day in Easter Week, but
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Alleluia! Christ is risen. Kua ara a Te Karaiti! Χριστóς α̉νέστη Christus resurrexit! Le Christ est ressuscité. Christus is opgestaan! Хрїстóсъ воскрéсе! more Easter greetings and more image source
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