Tag: Mission
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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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Mission/Evangelization and Colonialism/Imperialism
As with so many other matters, who we define as “the lost” can have numerous threads of racial supremacy, cultural colonialism, sacral imperialism, and other biases woven into its warp and woof.
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A Troubling End to Christmas?
The Christmas Season concludes with the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Surprisingly or not, there are people who may not know this. For many Christmas ends in a number ways: on Christmas Day, on civil New Year’s Day, or on Epiphany (whenever it is celebrated). But the truth is that it concludes…
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January 1st in the 17th century Chinese Liturgy
In 1670, following approval received in 1615 from Pope Paul V, a translation of the Roman Missal was published in classical Chinese. In the Missal, the feast on January 1st contains all the same readings as the Latin Roman Missal but bears a different title. Instead of the feast of the “Circumcision of the Lord,”…