Journal… Journal: Same gender unions… 22 Jun 2012 So... a contentious issue and one that has, I feel, been considerably mishandled by all parties. Essentially the actual matter of the debate is a redefinition of State unions to…
Liturgy… Today’s Saint: St Alban, Proto-Martyr of Britain 22 Jun 201221 Jun 2012 A man called Alban, believed to have been a Romano-British citizen of the Roman town of Verulamium around the end of the 3rd century, gave shelter to an itinerant Christian…
Liturgy… Today’s Saint: S. Sylverius, Pope & Martyr 20 Jun 201219 Jun 2012 St Sylverius, Pope & Martyr Butler's "Lives of the Saints" SILVERIUS was son of Pope Hormisdas, who had been engaged in wedlock before he entered the ministry. Upon the death…
Catechesis… Finding silence… 19 Jun 2012 The following demonstrates a simple exercise that those for whom I'm a spiritual director will recognise and even those whom I have directed musically will recognise some of the technique.…
Liturgy… Today’s Saint: SS. Gervasius and Protasius, Martyrs 19 Jun 201219 Jun 2012 ST. AMBROSE calls these saints the protomartyrs of Milan. They seem to have suffered in the first persecution under Nero, or at latest under Domitian, and are said to have…
Liturgy… Carissimi: Today’s Mass; Pentecost III 17 Jun 201216 Jun 2012 Pentecost III Sunday: Missa "Respice in me" The liturgy celebrates today the mercy of God towards us, poor sinners. (Collect, Postcommunion) Jesus has come not to call the just but sinners,…
Liturgy… Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Barnabas, Apostle & Martyr 15 Jun 201214 Jun 2012 Transferred St Barnabas, Apostle: Missa "Mihi autem nimis" St Vitalis is honoured as the principal patron of the city of Ravenna, in which he glorified God by martyrdom in the persecution…
Liturgy… Today’s Saint: St Basilides & Companions, Martyrs 12 Jun 201211 Jun 2012 Romæ, via Aurélia, natális sanctórum Mártyrum Basílidis, Cyríni, Náboris et Nazárii militum, qui, in persecutióne Diocletiáni et Maximiáni, sub Aurélio Præfécto, ob Christiáni nóminis confessiónem, detrúsi in cárcerem et scorpiónibus…
Liturgy… Carissimi: Today’s Mass; in the Octave of Corpus Christi 12 Jun 201211 Jun 2012 Octave of Corpus Christi: Missa "Cibávít eos" The Octave of Corpus Christi being privileged, Feasts are either commemorated only (in which case the appropriate Collect is said after that of the…
Liturgy… Today’s Saint: St Barnabas, Apostle & Martyr 11 Jun 201211 Jun 2012 Saint Barnabas was not one of the Twelve. He was the companion of St. Paul and merited the title of Apostle by his preaching and labors. He was stoned by…
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