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Pope Enters a Monastery – to Teach us All How to Pray in the ‘Real World’
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
On Sunday, October 9, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI presided over Second Vespers with the Carthusian monks at Serra San Bruno. From the Chapel of that Carthusian monastery he shared beautiful insights on silence and prayer which should be considered by all who bear the name Christian. His words brought me back to the days surrounding…
Choosing to be Catholic: Catholics Returning to the Church
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
I named this blog “Catholic by Choice” with a specific purpose, to communicate to those who read my writing that I choose to be a Catholic Christian and love the Catholic Church. I am a “revert” to the Catholic Church. Though I was baptized into the Church as an infant and received the other Sacraments…
Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi: Catholic Christians and the Mass
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
There is a Latin maxim that addresses the centrality of worship in the life, identity and mission of the Catholic Church; “Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi”. The phrase in Latin literally means the law of prayer (“the way we worship”), and the law of belief (“what we believe”). It is sometimes written as, “lex orandi, lex…
Simplicity and Communion: We will live the way we love and love the way we pray
By
Deacon Keith Fournier
As I grow older things are becoming simpler. Left behind with the years was some of my propensity to complicate things. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I have a long way to go. Having been with those preparing for death in my work as a Deacon of the Catholic Church, I have discovered that, in…
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