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Oct
6
The Spiritual Life
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
“The spiritual life is like a dance with a partner who has a fertile imagination and who leads. We must be alert, responsive to the slightest indication of his intention, supple, ready to adapt to the movements with which he woos us. Thus we are available, free from every preconception, wide open to the unexpected, […]
Oct
6
Father Cantalamessa on the Leap of Faith
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
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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Increase Our Faith
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Habakkuk 1:2-3; 2:2-4; 2 Timothy 1:6-8,13-14; Luke 17:5-10
This Sunday’s Gospel begins with the apostles asking Jesus: “Increase our faith!”
Instead of satisfying their desire, Jesus seems […]
Oct
6
Benedict XVI: Natural Law Is Base of Democracy
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Says Ignoring It Is a Crisis for Human Civilization
Benedict XVI says that natural law must be the foundation of democracy, so that those in power are not giving the chance to determine what is good or evil.
The Pope said this today when receiving in audience the members of the International Theological Commission, who had just […]
Oct
6
21 New Deacons for Australia and North America
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Archbishop Foley Highlights Role of Service
Archbishop John Foley told 21 Australians and North Americans about to be ordained deacons that their basic attitude should be one of service.
The U.S.-born archbishop, who is pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, said this in his homily during Thursday’s ordination Mass in St. […]
Oct
6
Sentence Upheld for Priest’s Killer in Turkey
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Turkey’s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the sentence for the teenage murderer of Italian Father Andrea Santoro. The decision to uphold the 18-year, 10-month sentence of imprisonment was made Thursday. Father Santoro was killed in February 2006 as he was praying in his church in Trabzon. Last year, a Trabzon court found Oguzhan Akdin guilty […]
Oct
6
Silence and Solitude
October 6, 2007 | 1 Comment
Silence and Solitude
Unchanged in 900 years, the austere beauty of the Carthusian way of life promises
to endure, as an oasis of hope for a society thirsting for the absolute.
By Philip F. Lawler
Early each October, thousands of tourists head for northern New England to enjoy the peak of the “foliage season.” If they pass through southern […]
Oct
6
Our Father Saint Bruno
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
A sermon given by the Reverend Father General Dom André at the General Chapter of 1983, in view of the celebration of the ninth centenary of the founding of the Order in 1084.
Our Father Saint Bruno
We are asked to turn to our Blessed Father not as the model for one or
any particular virtue, but rather […]
Oct
6
Saint Bruno
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Bruno was born around 1030. This founder of the Carthusian order of monks was at first not a hermit at all. For eighteen years he was a professor of theology in his own country of France. He tried his best to bring his students closer to God. Then he was given an important position in […]
Oct
6
Sophie Scholl - The Final Days
October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Directors: Marc Rothemund
The White Rose was a World War II non-violent resistance group in Germany famous for a leaflet campaign in which they called for active opposition to the Nazi regime. The group initially consisted of five students, all in their early twenties at Munich University. Between June 1942 and February 1943, they prepared and […]
