Tag: devotions
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Love for Love
NATHANIEL MARX — Pope Francis says the best way to receive love from the heart of Jesus is to spread it.
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Help, there’s a Monstrance in my Mass
Celebration of the Eucharist. Devotion to the Eucharist. Which is better? What were we doing right now?!?Â
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Something Old, Something New
The spiritual practice of devotions is an enriching one. Our spiritual/ritual lives—like any ecosystem—benefit from diversity.
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Reflecting on the Seven Sorrows of Mary
Pope Francis recently invited us to reflect on the Seven Sorrows of Mary. Fr. Liam Tracey, OSM has shared with us some of the history and development of this devotion. As we enter more deeply into Holy Week in 2020, what might reflecting on these sorrows mean for us today? The Seven Sorrows of Mary…
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Devotional Prayer and Community
In early October, I was in Nairobi teaching at a program for contemplative nuns, and afterward I spent a few days with the Benedictine nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery outside the city, in rural Kiambu. As I have written about before, this is still a fairly new community, and it is fascinating…
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New Book from Mike Joncas
My illness changed my understanding of Anointing, the Eucharist, and my daily prayer.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: Private and public spiritual practices
1. Which faith practices are essential to who you are? Are they personal, private or familial, or public? 2. Do your personal or private practices contribute to participation in large liturgical rites? How?
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Liturgy and Devotions — expressions of class, status, and economic standing?
Whether spoken out loud or not, the impression I had was that devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was a piety mostly for working class Catholics, for the simple minded, and for uneducated women.