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Rejoice!
By
awelborn
Who’s rejoicing? The news photogs assigned to the Sunday Angelus. Finally, they’ve got a slightly different setting in which to frame their subject: Photo credit. And his message – truly pastoral, realistic and faith-full: Today there were many children in the crowd of 40,000 people who took part in the recital of the Angelus in…
Advent Reflections
By
awelborn
In case you missed it a couple of weeks ago – Dorothy Day’s Advent reflections, penned in 1966 for Ave Maria magazine. From week 3: on chastity. HOW PRESUMPTUOUS it is to try to treat of such a subject in a short article, when great books (like Dietrich von Hildebrand’s In Defense of Purity )have…
Keep the Mass in Christmas
By
awelborn
Thoughts from Michael: We may be overly familiar with this Christmas story to notice what it might be telling us. What exactly is a sign? It is not an end in and of itself but rather points to a greater reality. What is the sign the shepherds are told they will witness? They are told…
Gaudete!
By
awelborn
Some posts and other things: What is Gaudete Sunday? Fr. Rob looks forward to Mass at his parish: The proper chants for this Mass speak of and, it seems to me, embody the joyful expectation we have in this season of preparation for the Lord’s coming. The communion antiphon says "Take courage, you who are…
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