"Each liturgical year is like a whole catechesis of the Christian faith, as well as a kind of microcosm of the entire life of the believer, from birth and baptism to final anointing and death."
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year B
— John Bergsma, The Word of the Lord: Reflections on the Sunday Mass Readings for Year B
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"We sorely need Advent as an annual occasion to listen to the prophet Isaiah, to marvel at the Annunciation, the Visitation, and the birth of Saint John the Baptist, to enter more deeply into the meaning of those two great songs of faith that frame the Church’s daily prayer, the Benedictus and the Magnificat, and to join Saint Joseph and the Blessed Virgin in silent adoration of the incarnate Son of God."
— Fr. Romanus Cessario, Meditations for Advent (Foreword)
— Fr. Romanus Cessario, Meditations for Advent (Foreword)
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"Holy angel, whoever you may be, to whom God has entrusted me, throw back those proud tempters who, continuing their war against God, struggle with him for the man that is his conquest and try to make off with him."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Advent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Advent
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"It is you, O Mary, whose fruit will crush the head of the serpent. It is you, O Jesus, who are this blessed fruit in whom our victory is assured. I give you thanks, my God, for having thus brought me hope."
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Advent
— Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Meditations for Advent
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
Plenary indulgence for participating in services during the Week of Christian Unity January 18-25 (Manual of Indulgences, USCCB)
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"There is absolutely no manuscript evidence—and thus no actual historical evidence—to support the claim that 'originally' the Gospels had no titles" (The Case for Jesus by Dr. Brant Pitre).
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"How can the man Jesus of Nazareth have such power and mastery over creation—a power that the Old Testament reserves to the LORD alone? The best explanation is that Jesus is the God of Israel come in person" (The Case for Jesus by Brant Pitre).
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"[T]he greatest care must be taken, while fulfilling the indispensable duty of research, to do no injury to the teachings of Christian doctrine."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"It is important in this respect to recall that, beyond scientifically verified phenomena, the intellect which God has given us reaches that which is, and not merely the subjective expression of the structures and development of consciousness."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"The mutual bonds which eternally constitute the Three Persons, who are each one and the same divine being, are the blessed inmost life of God thrice holy, infinitely beyond all that we can conceive in human measure."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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It is your duty as a Christian to pray for Pope Francis.
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"Thus in the Three Divine Persons, coaeternae sibi et coaequales, the life and beatitude of God perfectly one superabound and are consummated in the supreme excellence and glory proper to uncreated being..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"He ascended to heaven, and He will come again, this time in glory, to judge the living and the dead: each according to his merits—those who have responded to the love and piety of God going to eternal life, those who have refused them to the end going to the fire that is not extinguished."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"[The Holy Spirit's] action, which penetrates to the inmost of the soul, enables man to respond to the call of Jesus: Be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:48)."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"We believe that in Adam all have sinned... We therefore hold, with the Council of Trent, that original sin is transmitted with human nature, 'not by imitation, but by propagation' and that it is thus 'proper to everyone.'"
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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"We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ, by the sacrifice of the cross redeemed us from original sin and all the personal sins committed by each one of us..."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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Forwarded from TheFreim (Jackson Fretheim)
"Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. He does not see that God’s commitment to the world is most absolute precisely at this point—across a chasm."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar in "A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen"
- Hans Urs von Balthasar in "A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen"
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"Baptism should be administered even to little children who have not yet been able to be guilty of any personal sin, in order that, though born deprived of supernatural grace, they may be reborn “of water and the Holy Spirit” to the divine life in Christ Jesus."
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
— Pope St. Paul VI, Credo of the People of God
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