Sunday, 8 April 2012

Perfection and Loneliness

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Today, we celebrate the greatest event a human has ever encountered-the Resurrection from the Dead. You may think this is odd, but on this...

Happy Easter to All

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Piero della Francesca
Saturday, 7 April 2012

Perfection Series for Holy Saturday--Faith, Hope and Reason

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On this day of the waiting for God to emerge from the tomb, on this quiet day of contemplation and profound Hope, a post on Faith, Hope and ...

Exsultet

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Chag Pesach sameach! Am Yisroel chai!

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Happy Passover to my Secular, my Jewish and my Christian friends throughout Britain. This is only the third year in over thirty-five years...

The Harrowing of Hell--The Ignored Event in the Creed

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One of my favorite meditations is the Harrowing of Hell. This is in the Creed, "and He descended into Hell" or in some translation...
Friday, 6 April 2012

O Sacred Head Surrounded and a Pictorial Meditation on the Pieta for Good Friday, 2012

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Michelangelo:  Pietà Palestrina Enguerrand Charonton Michelangelo Giovanni Bellini

Oh Happy Fault, Oh Necessary Sin of Adam

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  "O felix culpa quae talem et tantum meruit habere redemptorem," God allows evil to happen in order to bring about a greater goo...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

Just a reminder--only men should have their feet washed and here is why....Pope speaks of disobedience ....

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/05/us-pope-idUSBRE8340IM20120405 from the article..... The pope responded specifically to a call t...

Have a prayerful and holy day....

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Well, now something completely different for Holy Thursday. For Fr. B and C,
Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Tenebrae

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If you are fortunate enough to live near a church which has Tenebrae, I encourage you to go. I miss this special Holy Wednesday service, whi...

Seminarians praying at an abortion mill--our future generation of priests

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Seminarians from the Pontifical College Josephinum wearing their house cassocks (which identify them with their particular seminary), and p...

Lenten Series of Perfection--The Illuminative Stage

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Father Gabriel continues with his clarification of St. John of the Cross' stages of purification. The movement from the prayer of medit...

Perfection Series for Holy Week

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Father Gabriel in his book on St. John of the Cross, writes this: Love sujects the love to the object loved; it make him love all that th...
Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Before the serious days set in, some fun from one of my young readers

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Rugby at Chavagnes and Leadership Skills

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The Rugby team at the International English College in Chavagnes is getting a great reputation in the area for two things. Firstly, the team...

Updates from Spencer

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Two important notes in the press today. One, from the great Spencer, that the Coptic Christians have removed themselves from  constitutional...

Red Alert Because of North Korean Launch -- Drudge

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I predicted that if Obama thought he would lose the election, he would start a war. Now, the missile shield has been activated in the Pacifi...

More Cherry Blossoms

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Happy Birthday, to my Dad, who is 89 today.

People who eat chocolate have less body fat??????? Wow...great ready for those Easter rabbits

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http://start.toshiba.com/tv/3/player/vendor/CBC/player/grab/asset/grab-vmB5nv7rbk Ah, sometimes life is good. Looking forward to a Roc...