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by bcadmin | May 20, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
For this 5th Sunday after Easter we are still moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James. Our Gospel readings are inexhaustible and there are always manifold treasures to unlock. At […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
Our context for the 4th Sunday after Easter is, in the liturgical year, our preparation for the Ascension of the Lord. Sometimes the Feast of the Ascension Thursday is given short shrift, which is unfortunate. One could argue that transferring […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | May 7, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice, The Gospel | 0 |
There is a Latin adage: motus in fine velocior, sometimes expressed as in fine citius. Things go faster the closer they get to the end. This is an overarching context for our days. For this 3rd Sunday after Easter we […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
This year the 1 May observance of the 2nd Sunday after Easter gives way in honor of St. Joseph, whom we venerate among his other many roles and titles as a patron of laborers and as the “Worker.” In contrast […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 24, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
This Sunday we complete the Octave of Easter. In the post-Conciliar calendar, it is creatively called the “Second Sunday of Easter” or, since John Paul II was greatly interested in the theme, “Divine Mercy Sunday”. However, historically we call the […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 18, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
Happy Easter! My hopeful prayer is that you experience, in this Easter Season, true joy in a personal encounter with the Risen Lord. The Church’s firehose of imagery and traditions and sacred liturgy has been blasting fully at our little […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 9, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
Ever since we set out on our spiritual journey on pre-Lent Septuagesima Sunday, step by step we have approached Holy Week. While a measure of weariness might distress us as we slog along the paths of penance and discipline, of […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 2, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
From the pre-Lent, “Gesima” Sundays onward, Holy Mother Church began her plunge into liturgical death. At first we lost the “Alleluia,” the Gloria, and on Sundays we dressed in penitential violet to herald the proximity of Lent. With Lent, these […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 27, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
It is a fact of human nature that if our senses are constantly bombarded with the same thing, say for example, music that is too loud or an environment that is all the same color, or even violent or wicked […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 19, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
The Roman Station for the 3rd Sunday of Lent is the Minor Papal Basilica of St. Lawrence outside-the-walls. There are five Papal Basilicas, four Major and one Minor. They were once called Patriarchal Basilicas and they corresponded to the five […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
You’ve probably noticed that Gospel readings begin, “In illo tempore… in that time.” Well… what time is that? It is helpful to interrogate texts with classic questions from ancient rhetoric: “Quis, quid, ubi, quibus auxiliis, cur, quomodo, quando?” You can […]
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 4, 2022 | News, Preparation for the Holy Sacrifice | 0 |
With the “Gesima,” pre-Lent Sundays we added a layer of context to our contexts: Roman Station churches. Each day of Lent has, by millennial tradition, an assigned church in Rome. On weekdays, people gathered at a nearby “collect” church and […]
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