The monk wakes up on Wednesday and has a full breakfast…
Read moreMonth: March 2014
Swiss Vicar General Warns of Massive Ecumenical Setback
“Through the bonds of baptism, all are members of the one Church of Jesus Christ. At the Table of the Lord, at least in confessionally mixed marriages, this unity should not continue to lead down separate paths.”
Read moreWhat Are You Reading This Lent?
What do you recommend to our readers?
Read morePrayer and indulgence
What does it mean to “indulge myself”? Can I indulge in prayer and relationship instead?
Read moreFasting and dieting
I very much fear that giving up dessert allows us to fall into a secular understanding of the purpose of food control – it’s for “health” or, if we are honest with ourselves, thinness and longevity. “The ten miracle foods that can make you live longer!” “The simple diet trick that can help you lose twenty pounds!” For me, though,the health of my body should not be an end in itself, but one of the many (temporal and temporary) goods I’m privileged with as a gift.
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXIX
“Then yet another relatio [report] on the modi called for in the liturgy. What a bore! However, it is a question of things that are important: mother tongue in the sacraments and in the liturgy.”
Read moreCardinal Pell on Liturgical Translation
It gets dicier in the second part, with Pell’s version of the history of the Roman translation documents Comme le prévoit (1969) and Liturgicam authenticam (2001).
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