Category: 2_ARS CELEBRANDI
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Ars Praedicandi: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
That sounds extreme, and it is. But in these days of too many mass shootings, too much racial prejudice, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, too much war and poverty and polarization extreme measures seem necessary.
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Does the Presentation of the Lord need to be supplemented by the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life?
Call me a killjoy, but I don’t really like the fact that the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is the day when the Catholic Church observes the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life. I have nothing against Consecrated Life or those who have followed their vocation there. But it seems to detract…
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ESV Catholic Edition not Catholic enough?
In 2019 the Augustine Institute in Colorado published the English Standard Version Catholic Edition. This is a Catholic edition of the popular Evangelical Protestant translation that is owned by Crossway publishing house. This translation is closely related to the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. But it is revised so that the new edition…
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Ars Praedicandi: 3rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
In the spirit of this divine Bandit, we are unexpectedly invited into the piracy of God, the Robin Hood mission of the only-begotten baptized not just to be disciples but maybe even holy marauders.
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Ars Praedicandi: 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Ed Foley
“The Faberge exhibit was beautiful, but I did not experience God in the museum. On the L platform, however, I sincerely believe that I encountered the face of Christ.”
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Christmas & Epiphanytide: Season of Aiglatson
Every voice—from the smallest creature to the greatest of galaxies, will be lifted up in praise of the God of Jesus Christ.
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‘A wandering we’ll go,’ ecumenical Advent lessons
Purple versus blue, Christmas songs everywhere by Halloween, Black Friday, the imposition of urgency in consuming…the usual rush around Advent – we all live immersed in some of it every year around the end of November. In the US, Thanksgiving (particularly the Thanksgiving triduum of Thursday, Black Friday, and football) overshadows the beginnings of…
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Ars Praedicandi: 3rd Sunday of Advent, Ed Foley
“Until we meet again … be at peace and, no matter in what prison you might dwell, no matter what darkness threatens to enfold you, take up his good news choose to be part of the proof that I did truly baptize God’s own messiah an unending source of consolation and light and his name…
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Fed from the Table
Many of my presbyter friends think that I am crazy to affirm the importance of this primary symbol of eating Communion from the altar at the Eucharist. They say it is impossible. Now I can say from experience that it is possible.