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Marian Devotion on the Rise, Says Scholar

August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

A group of Catholics in Mexico City are inviting all religious and lay movements to join them Oct. 7 for Worldwide Rosary Day.
 
The main event will be hosted at the Basilica of Our Lay of Guadalupe in Mexico City, but organizers are asking all interested “religious and lay movements from around the world to organize [...]

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Nuns Seek to Put Soul in Communications

August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The blue-robed sisters known for their bookstores and publishing houses are gathered on the outskirts of Rome to study evangelization in the world of modern communications.
The Daughters of St. Paul, the women religious behind Pauline Books and Media, opened their general chapter on Wednesday. Seventy-one religious are taking part in the meeting.
According to a communiqué [...]

Aug

31

Father Cantalamessa on Modesty

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Here is a translation of a commentary by the Pontifical Household preacher, Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, on the readings from this Sunday’s liturgy.
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Be Modest in What You Do!
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sirach 3:19-21, 30-31; Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a; Luke 14:1, 7-14
 
The beginning of this Sunday’s Gospel helps us to correct a widely diffused prejudice: [...]

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Ascension Catholic Community Ministry of Intercession for September

August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Please pray for the following;
For the Pope’s intention that following Christ joyfully, all missionaries may know how o overcome the difficulties they meet in everyday life.
Creator of all life, help us to protect and respect the dignity of all life.
Holy Spirit, thank you for all the men, women and children who minister in our parish. [...]

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Perpetual Eremitic Profession

August 31, 2007 | 1 Comment

Please join us in prayers of thanksgiving! On Sunday Sister Laurel M O’Neal of Stillsong Hermitage will be making her perpetual profession of vows in the hands of her local Ordinary as a diocesan hermit under Canon 603. We also ask that you pray for those who are travelling to the liturgy from various parts of the country, that [...]

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