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Deacon Greg Kandra
Coming into the Church this Easter? New? Just browsing around? Pull up a chair and stay awhile. And if you have a few free moments, wander over to this terrific blog, Catholic Converts. I stumbled on it when it got a mention in Amy Welborn’s blog — and it looks to be a wonderful and…
Welcome to a new blog: “Helping Others with Cancer”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
As we continue our journey through Holy Week, I got an e-mail from a reader, alerting me to a new and, I think, very interesting voice in the blogosphere. It is aimed at those suffering with cancer — both those who have the disease, and those who love them. It’s called Helping Others With Cancer,…
More on the Exultet, “this wonderful and only apparently simple melody”
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
Our good friends over at Zenit have posted a little something on the Exultet, of which I wrote a at some length a few days ago. Seems someone was curious about where this chant originated — and why it’s sung so often these days by lay people and cantors, instead of priests and deacons. The…
Lubich on love
By
Deacon Greg Kandra
We should live in such a way that in our last hours we will not regret having loved too little. — Chiara Lubich, whose funeral mass was celebrated today in Rome, at St. Paul’s Outside the Walls. I don’t think she could possibly have had this regret in her own life.
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