Category: Saints / Mary
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for August 9: Memorial of Dr. Edith Stein/St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Early feminist ● German Jewish philosopher ● Catholic intellectual ● Discalced Carmelite ● victim of the Shoah ● Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ● “Virgin and Martyr” — Ways of remembering Edith Stein are multiple, and they include sensitive terrain.
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May Day versus Labor Day
Today the General Roman Calendar celebrates St Joseph the Worker as an Optional Memorial. The observance is marked with more or less solemnity in different places. But I have always wondered why it is celebrated on May 1 in the United States. Even though I am currently ministering in Ireland, the land of my birth,…
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In the image of God he created them …
What “being a woman” is has always been and still is decided by men in the Catholic Church – to the disadvantage of women.
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My Headless Mr. Heart
Where the world might see brokenness and defeat, my son sees a peerless member of the communion of super-heroes, with powers far greater than I ever imagined.
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Thinking Through Tradition with the Myrrhbearers and St John
Tradition is not just information about God, or correct words and ritual forms. It is rather a living encounter with God.
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Of Tombs that are Empty, and Tombs that are Filling
So, on this Easter 2022, I will simply have to hold together the beautiful images from Queen Melisende’s Psalter, with the photo of a Ukrainian mother, Nadiya Trubchaninova, wailing at the coffin of her son Vadym.
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February 2: “There was also a Prophet…” (Luke 2:36)
Candlemas also marks the death of a 20th-century prophet.
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Between Epiphany and Lent: A Soft Point in the Liturgical Year
What if we envisioned the “empty” period of time between Epiphany and Lent as an opportunity for making meaning?
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December 26 is Saint Stephen, isn’t it?
A proposal for a reconfiguration of the liturgical calendar in the Roman rite.