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Aged care residents receive visits for Year of Mercy
The Catholic Leader - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:04 pm RESIDENTS at Regis Aged Care, Salisbury, are experiencing the spirit of the Year of Mercy thanks to visits from Year 5 and 6 students from St Pius X Catholic Primary School....
Crossing the Threshold of Holy Week
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:04 pm It caught me by surprise that the Carmelite Sisters keep a complete and prayerful silence during the Holy Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, not speaking...
The First Eucharist
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:03 pm “Take and eat, for this is my body…” On Holy Thursday, the night before he died, the Lord Jesus made some startling changes in the ritual of the Passover meal. Instead of being...
Catholic Quote of the Day — from St. John of the Cross
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:02 pm “At the end of your life, you will be judged by your love.” (St. John of the Cross) The Memorial of St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (A.D. 1542 – 1591), is...
Encountering the Word — Galatians 6:14
Integrated Catholic Life - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:01 pm A Daily Quote from Sacred Scripture “But far be it from me to glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which[a] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the...
Hot Cross Buns, a Good Friday Tradition
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm The history of the hot cross bun, traditionally served on Good Friday, is quite interesting and goes back farther than you might think (for a recipe see “Hot Cross Buns for Good...
Justices, Attorneys Hash out Religious Freedom Issue in Contraceptive Mandate Case
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm The Chief Justice of the United States seemed to show sympathy with the Little Sisters of the Poor and others in a case challenging an Obamacare provision when he agreed that the...
Songs for Holy Week: God Is With Us
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm “Our Lord and God we hung upon a tree. He shed his blood to set the captives free.” Everybody knows the Australian worship band Hillsong, but you might not have heard of the other...
6 Good Reasons to Abstain from Meat on Fridays, Even Beyond Lent
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm A Protestant friend who lived in Philadelphia once said, “You know why those Catholics eat fish on Friday? They’re all Italians, and the Italians have the fish market downtown. So...
How Do You Separate the Cradle and the Cross?
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm They can move the Feast of the Annunciation from Good Friday, but they can’t separate the cradle from the cross. Not if one is a parent. When you’re a mother, in particular, there...
WATCH: Ordinariate Choir Sings Beautiful Rendition of “If Ye Love Me”
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm In January 2012, the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter was established to enable Anglicans and Episcopalians to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church...
Winter’s Tale: The Icy Pang of Contrition and the Gift of Thawing Grace
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm Is there a genre of theatrical play best suited for a season of penance? If we’re willing to look beyond Mystery plays to less obvious candidates, I would make a case for...
On Holy Thursday, the Life of Oscar Romero Provides Rich Material for Meditation
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm Moveable feasts sometimes give rise to convergences of “red-letter days” that suggest a deeper meaning for both observances. This year, Good Friday falls on the traditional date...
Bishop Schneider on Holy Communion
Rorate Coeli - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm On this Maundy Thursday we are happy to share a talk given by Bishop Athanasius Schneider on the Eucharist.The address, delivered in Italian last year in Rome, was translated by...
Are You a Fish Eater?
Aleteia - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm A Protestant friend who lived in Philadelphia once said, “You know why those Catholics eat fish on Friday? They’re all Italians, and the Italians have the fish market downtown. So...
Supreme Court hears HHS mandate case
OSV Daily Take - Mar 23, 2016 at 11:00 pm When push comes to shove, which carries greater constitutional weight: the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty or the government’s insistence on involving some...
We head for Poland as pilgrims, not tourists
The Catholic Leader - Mar 23, 2016 at 10:01 pm TWO million pilgrims are set to pass through Poland’s city of churches with one mantra – not to be labelled tourists. Among the millions, there will be 26 young people from...
Transcript of Arguments In Zubik Case Is Now Available
The Religion Clause - Mar 23, 2016 at 8:08 pm The full transcript of today's oral arguments in Zubik v. Burwell, the contraceptive coverage mandate accommodation case, is now available. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has an...
Blog down for a while… why?
What Does the Prayer Really Say? - Mar 23, 2016 at 7:12 pm There was a DNS attack on the blog today.
There were 383 pages of log entries from one IP address make multiple queries per second.
Just so you know… the devil and his agents hate...
