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A non-poemYour wonderful brown eyes look up full of wonderat the vastness of the blue sky, yonderquestioning the silver moon, you ponderabout the red depths of our love.The white answer rents the...

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Tags: poetic attempts
Moscow's Patriarch speaks highly of Tridentine revival - again

Folks, my better known blogging colleague at Rorate Coeli published yesterday an excerpt of an interview granted by the Patriarch of Moscow, Alexis II (pictured right), to Giovanni Cubeddu and Fabio...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, orthodox church, papacy, ecumenism
What is prayer?

Prayer is but the quest for the face of God. It is the primary classroom where we meet Love in person as the Teacher who instructs us on how to Love Him and each other. The lessons are often...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, catholic living, personal reflections
March for Life web coverage minimal among Big Media

Folks, as of 4:30 PM EST, I made a quick survey of Big Media web coverage of today's March for Life. These are the results: none featured the story on their initial screen. After effecting searches,...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, life issues, media
The Demons of Married Life

by Father Nicolás SchwizerTranslated by Carlos CantúIn married love, the secret is to not struggle against age, but to struggle united with it. That is the rule of wisdom.The infancy of married love....

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Tags: fr. n. schwizer, defense of marriage, catholic living, enlightened words, schoenstatt
Europeans take aim at "Christianophobia"

We should too. Folks, I want to call your attention to the site Christianophobia in Europe which I think you will find interesting. The site is hosted by the NGO Europe for Christ! registered in...

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Tags: news commentary, anti-catholicism, atheism and unbelief
Archbishop Chaput on the Connection between Citizenship and Catholicism

Over at First Things, the Archbishop of Denver, the Most Reverend Charles Chaput, wrote Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics, which is of the highest caliber, as everything that flows from...

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Tags: abp. chaput, episcopal magisterium, enlightened words, moral issues
An anniversary overlooked

Folks, last October we missed the 25th anniversary of the proclamation by the Holy See of the Charter of the Rights of the Family, presented to "All Persons, Institutions and Authorities Concerned...

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Tags: catholicism and culture, family and society
Podcast: Lectio Divina of Psalm 10

Brothers and Sisters, I present to you a lectio divina or "divine reading" of Psalm 10 as prayed in two parts in the Office of Readings for the first Tuesday of the Psalter. You may listen to it by...

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Tags: contemplative prayer, podcasts, lectio divina, liturgy of the hours, bible studies
"Islamic Jesus" film released in Iran

Not the way we said it happened, but the way they said it happened.A propos of the Iranians, according to Breitbart.com, A director who shares the ideas of Iran's hardline president has produced what...

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Tags: islam, interfaith issues, eschatology, media