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Attende Domine - Hear, O Lord

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The penitential hymn is based on a 10th century Mozarabic Litany for the Lenten Season. 
Latin:
Attende Domine, et miserere, quia peccavimus, tibi.
Ad te Rex summe, omnium redemptor, oculos nostros sublevamus flentes: exaudi, Christe, supplicantum preces.
Dextera Patris, lapis angularies, via salutis, ianua caelestis, ablue nostri maculas delicti.
Rogamus, Deus, tuam maiestatem: auribus sacris gemitus exaudi: crimina nostra placidus […]

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Aide: Make Way for the Word of God

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Says More Than a Bodily Fast Is Needed This Lent
Fasting from words and images this Lent will help to prepare the soul to listen to the Word of God — the Word with a capital “W,” commented a Vatican spokesman.Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, said this during the most recent […]

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Lent: A Time to Face up to Evil Together with Christ

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  Today, the first Sunday of Lent, the Holy Father addressed the pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray the Angelus, reminding them that the beginning of this liturgical period means “dedicating particular attention to the spiritual struggle to oppose the evil that exists in the world, in each one of us, and around […]

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Lent

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The English word “Lent” is from  the Anglo-Saxon word meaning “spring.” However, the official term used by the Church is “Quadragesima,” from the Latin word for “forty.” The number of days from Ash Wednesday to Easter, not counting the Sundays, which are not days of fast, is forty. To help you make a profitable forty-day […]

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On Entering Into Lent

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Here is a translation of the address Benedict XVI delivered today before reciting the midday Angelus with several thousand people gathered in St. Peter’s Square.* * *
Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Last Wednesday, with the fast and the rite of ashes, we entered into Lent. But what does it mean to “enter into Lent?” It means to […]

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Listen To Him

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While Christ’s glory shines on us all is well. At other times we express our fidelity through struggling with the particular temptations that are part of our personal story. To persevere in this we need to allow ourselves to be re-formed at the level of belief and value, to put on the mind of Christ, […]

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From the Pastor’s Desk

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Two principles from the unalterable basis of the virtue of abandonment or absoulte surrender to divine Providence.
First Principle: Nothing is done, nothing happens, either in the material or in the mortal order, which God has not forseen from all eternity, and which He has not willed, or at least permitted.
Second Principle: God can neither will […]

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Prior of St. Hugh’s: First Sunday of Lent

February 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

TO SEEK GOD TRULY
The only thing that St. Benedict asked of the apsirant monk was that
he sought God truly. It is, perhaps, all we should ask of any monk,
whatever his age or experience. To seek God truly, and not some other
thing, however legitimate, is rare, and difficult to maintain
throughout a lifetime. In fact, it is […]