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I purchased a new rosary today...

IAve Maria!I bought it because I liked how its big beads felt in my fingers, its brown color and its Benedictine medals. This Rosary will always be with me and I will pray it as often as I can.This...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, theo's family news, catholic living
Catholic Blog Awards now open for nomination

Folks, nominations for the Catholic Blog Awards are now open. If you feel that Vivificat deserves some sort of recognition, please nominate the blog for an award at CatholicBlogAwards.com.

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogs and blogging
To exorcize the world means to establish it in the light of reason

Folks, I have continued my slow, meditative reading of Pope Benedict XVI's work, Jesus of Nazareth and almost in every page I find precious jewels worth internalizing. In his discussion of the Our...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: theology, science, philosophy, enlightened words
The Three Temptations

Father Nicolas Schwizer. Translated by Carlos Cantú. Lent is a privileged time to put finishing touches on our life’s goal and to review our objectives. Sometimes it is a painful review and it...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: fr. n. schwizer, reflections, lent, schoenstatt
Nominations for 2008 Catholic Blog Awards to Begin

Folks, according to CyberCatholics.com, my gracious sponsor:ABBEVILLE, LA (JANUARY 24, 2008) - cyberCatholics.com is proud to announce that nominations for the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards will soon...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: blogs and blogging
Death penalty fitting for 9/11 masterminds

Folks, back to the grinder.We start this first week of Lent with the news that the United States will seek the death penalty against six Guantanamo Bay detainees who are suspects in the September 11,...

Started in Vivificat! • 10 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: news commentary, war and peace, terrorism
What Are the Origins of Ash Wednesday and the Use of Ashes?

By Fr. William Saunders The liturgical use of ashes originates in Old Testament times. Ashes symbolized mourning, mortality and penance. For instance, in the Book of Esther, Mordecai put on sackcloth...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: reflections, catholic living, lent
Blogbreak for the next week

Also, Lent is upon us! Folks, I find myself within those seasonal "outbreaks of busy-ness." Blogging will slow down for the next week-and-half. Depending on time and availability I might do it - or...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: lent, admin notes
Book Review: An Infinity of Little Hours

Reality, not hagiography. This is the best way to describe An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order, by Nancy Klein...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: contemplative prayer, book reviews, monasticism
Today we remember St. Thomas Aquinas

The Church's Master Theologian. Blessed be the Lord! For love of him St. Thomas Aquinas spent long hours in prayer, study and writing.By universal consent Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman...

Started in Vivificat! • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: theology, patron saints, saints