The first thing we should really do first is revise the Athanasian Creed, aka. Quicumque vult… As I must have mentioned before, the feast of Pentecost used to have an octave of eight days, and the eighth day after the feast day – the octave day – was a commemoration of the Most Blessed Trinity,Continue reading “Holy, Holy, Holy (Trinity Sunday)”
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The saga of salvation history (Pentecost Sunday)
“We tend to focus on extraordinary things, like the Apostles being able to speak in many languages and everybody’s surprise about this. But the Holy Ghost doesn’t come to give us extraordinary powers for the sake of giving us extraordinary powers.”
‘Thou hast no bucket’ (Sunday III of Lent)
We have readings about thirst this weekend, and when this occurs in Sacred Scripture, the real thirst of the Israelites in the desert can speak also of a spiritual thirst of that same people. And then there is the story of the Samaritan woman at the well. “Then the whole people of Israel left theContinue reading “‘Thou hast no bucket’ (Sunday III of Lent)”
The Rosary and persistence in prayer (Sunday XXIX of Ordered time)
“…out with our beads, our arms are heavy… with laziness or reticence, or with the cares of life, which exhaust us and distract us, and there is no time for any prayer, certainly not the toil of the Rosary…”
The Sacrament of Love (Corpus Christi Sunday)
It was not too long ago that this last Thursday was everywhere the feast day of the body of Christ (in Latin, Corpus Christi) and the first day of July was the feast day of the blood of Christ. But these days, the two have been lumped together into one feast day on the Thursday,Continue reading “The Sacrament of Love (Corpus Christi Sunday)”
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