The Faith
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It is very meet, right, and our bounden duty, that we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks unto thee, O Lord, holy Father, almighty, everlasting God. —traditional English version of the prayer of thanksgiving from the Mass
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(See this post for background.) Our little, and I do mean little, group perseveres. We now have our own chapel–well, almost: we don't have an altar yet, but we hope to have the first Mass there on the first Sunday of Advent. There is a group blog called Anglican Patrimony to which our priest, Fr.…
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I expect most people who read this blog know of Dawn. Her conversion story is pretty powerful, and connects with a couple of recent discussions here, including this week's Sunday Night Journal, about the state of relations between the sexes, and this one, which touched on the apparently absent sense of God's absence among so…
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The spiritual poverty of many of our contemporaries, who no longer perceive the absence of God in their lives as a form of deprivation, poses a challenge to all Christians. –Benedict XVI I know so many people of whom this is true. It's very hard to know what to say to them. You're telling a…
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I've been carrying around for a week or two now a couple of pages from Magnificat bearing this quotation, meaning to post it but either forgetting it when I had the opportunity, or remembering it when I didn't. But it seems appropriate for the first post-election Sunday, when some of us are perhaps a bit more…
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I was sitting here at my desk eating lunch and thinking of posting another few comments about the election, but then I read this post by Janet, and it's way better than anything I would have said, so go read it.
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Should have posted this yesterday (or whenever it was that I first saw it). Go here to get 20% off the price of Sally Thomas's book of poems, Brief Light, today. It's not very expensive to start with, so with the discount it's down around the price of a fast-food lunch, or even one of those elaborate coffee…
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Heather King is the author of several memoirs, which I have not read but plan to, and of some shorter things which I have read and liked very much. Here is a video in which she walks to Mass in her Los Angeles neighborhood, talking as she goes about the place and about being Catholic. It's half…
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Politics and Anti-Christ (2) As I said in a sort of disclaimer about last week’s post, the subject was really too big for the work of a few hours. Toward the end I touched on some things that need elaboration, so I’m doing that now. The subject is still too big, but I've covered the…
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My Word (A Letter to the Editor) I'm afraid this isn't going to be of great interest to most people. It's something I've been wanting to do for several months, but couldn't find time for, so I decided to devote to it the time I would ordinarily have spent working on the SNJ. The local…
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