The Faith
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From the pope's remarks concluding this year's Lenten retreat: “I was reminded of the fact,” Benedict XVI said, “that the medieval theologians have translated the word 'logos' not only as 'verbum', but also as 'ars'. 'Verbum' and 'ars' are interchangeable. Only in the two together does the entire meaning of the word 'logos' appear for…
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And on the pope himself: Benedict XVI is MY Pope. Another interesting reaction from a (fairly) young person, recent convert, and recently ordained priest: Fr. Matthew Venuti, my so-to-speak parish priest in the Ordinariate. You may have noticed that the blog Father Father appeared on my sidebar recently. The main reason I haven't mentioned it is that I'm…
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(I have an uneasy feeling that I may have written more or less this post before, but a quick look around hasn't found it. ) Some years Lent gets off to a better start than others for me. This year I was going to make a real effort to start thinking about it well before…
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Well, this is a shock. My immediate reaction is somewhat selfish. It happens that just yesterday I heard our Ordinariate pastor's report on the symposium on the Ordinariate which took place in Houston on the first weekend of February. The symposium was addressed by no less than the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine…
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I've had a very pleasant three-day weekend (thanks to the Martin Luther King holiday). And I've made an effort to pay little attention to the inauguration, but of course whenever I look at the headlines online I'm reminded. And I did, out of curiosity, read Obama's address. Fine words, some of them. And mostly either…
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…In the meantime, the only thing that I can see that will help you is to learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, to be kind to yourself, by looking outwards to God, by accepting the fact that you are infinitely loved by Infinite Love, and that if you will only cease to build up…
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I knew once the primmest old invalid lady who could well have offered her helplessness to God but had a grievance with Him because He had not permitted her to be eaten by a cannibal for the Faith; she could not accept herself as a sick woman but she would have achieved heroic virtue as…
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“Be it done unto me according to thy word” surrenders yourself and all that is dear to you to God, and the trust which it implies does not mean trusting God to look after you and yours, to keep them in health and prosperity and honor. It means much more, it means trusting that whatever God…
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If I were you I should not worry with de Caussade and his ilk. Most books of that sort are written by and for religious (monks and nuns), and once they have made a clean break from their family and the world, they have not got the same kind of troubles that we have. It is…
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I think the most moving fact in the whole history of mankind is that wherever the Holy Spirit has desired to renew the face of the earth He has chosen to do so through communion with some humble little human creature. In the instances we know of, it has not been to great or powerful…
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