Category: Religious life
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Learning about shepherding
Worshiping with the monks of Saint John’s Abbey is a transformative experience for many of us.
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Why We Are All Nuns: Catholic Pride; Universal Call to Holiness
by Jack Rakosky Why are people interested in nuns? Why are we “all nuns”?
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Systems Thinking, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the LCWR
Only one document was specifically condemned in the recent doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Council of Women Religious: a training manual called the Systems Thinking Handbook. Why? What was wrong with it?
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Dialogue between old and new liturgical movements
“So how can the old and the new come together with the humility and magnanimity that are the antidotes to pride?.” – Fr. Christopher Jamison, OSB
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Thank You, Sisters
“The Vatican document, no matter what you think of it, has saddened and demoralized many Catholic women, many generous Catholic sisters who have given their lives to the Church. So I think it’s a good time for us to say to them two words: Thank you.” From a video by by Fr. Jim Martin, SJ
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Fictional monks
The monkish habit itself is fraught with potential fear – it’s unsurprising that so many ghost stories feature an unquiet brother, hooded and menacing.
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Lutheran, Catholic, and Monastic Pathways to Christ
by Bro. Paul August Jasmer, OSB “When people hear that I was raised Lutheran, they ask three questions: 1) From which Lutheran synod? 2) When did you convert? and 3) Why?”
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Thoughts of a Liturgist on “Of Gods and Men”
I have just come from viewing “Of Gods and Men” (Des hommes et des dieux), a 2010 film in French and Arabic with English subtitles, directed by Xavier Beauvois. I would STRONGLY recommend it to the readers of Pray Tell.
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The Heartache and the Hope
An Evangelical pastor attends a simple, dignified monastic liturgy, and looks forward to the day when all will be one.