Month: March 2014
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The Ukranian Crisis and the Joyful Season of Lent
by Deacon Nicholas Denysenko “I marvel at the paradox of beginning a military incursion on the first day of Lent. Lent is a season of joy for Orthodox Christians—we sing Alleluia more often in Lent than we do during the rest of the liturgical year—and we celebrate the real purpose of Lent by intensifying prayer,…
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Will the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul become a mosque again?!
As it was announced that a Pan-Orthodox synod would be held in Istanbul in 2016 (more on this to come!) speculation around the fate of the Hagia Sophia has continued.
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Non Solum: Choosing a Communion Song
“My questions concern the selection of songs for the Communion Rite.”
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One Year Ago Today: The Election
When the white smoke came, earlier than expected, I gave up all hope of trying to concentrate on the class material, and we tuned in to the online news coverage and watched anxiously.
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Come, Follow… Francis spurs interest in religious life and lay ministry
There has been a notable rise in interest in exploring a vocation to the Jesuits — as well as to other communities and lay ministry — since Pope Francis was elected.
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Words Can Change Us – Can We Change Them?
Texts can change us. They change how we feel; they affect and enhance our spiritual lives. Inferior texts change us differently and perhaps less well. Can we alter texts so that their effect on us is, shall we say, more desirable? Or at least so that their effect on us is enhanced?
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Does Pope Francis Like the Lectionary-Based Collects?
The Pope ended the Angelus today with a quote from the Sunday collect – not the translated collect of the Roman Missal, but the Lectionary-based Collect from the 2nd edition of the Italian Messale Romano (1983) for the First Sunday of Lent, Year A.
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXX
The Pope is looking for a formula for proclaiming the decree on the liturgy that ASSOCIATES THE BISHOPS with the Pope. Something other than ‘Paul, with the approval of the sacred Council . . . !
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Taking the Mass to the Streets
“The streets were the place where Jesus was most often to be found. He could have easily been mistaken for a homeless person because he was always in the street,” the Bishop of Rome told priests of the diocese of Rome at the recent audience.