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Papal Address at the End of the Way of the Cross

March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here is a transcription and translation of the reflection Benedict XVI offered today at the end of the Way of the Cross in the Roman Colosseum.
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Dear brothers and sisters,
This year too we have walked along the way of the cross, the Via Crucis, evoking again with faith the stages of the passion of […]

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Good Friday Sermon of Father Cantalamessa

March 21, 2008 | 1 Comment

Here is a translation of the sermon delivered today by Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher of the Pontifical Household, at the Good Friday liturgy in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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“When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and divided them into four shares, a share for each soldier. They also took his tunic, […]

Mar

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Britain’s Military Bishop on the Iraq War

March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Here is a statement issued by Bishop Tom M. Burns of the Military Diocese of Great Britain on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.
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We have just marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. The politics behind that fateful decision have been well-rehearsed. My view is that […]

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Afflictions

March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ. For the beginning of the Passion–the first move, so to speak–is in Gethsemane. In Gethsemane a […]

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The Silent Cross

March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

The liturgy of Good Friday is one of the most ancient and the most stark of all of the Church’s ceremonies. Traditionally, there is no homily given on that day. Is that because on this penitential day the patience and ascetic spirit of the people of God is not to be tried by the kerygmatic […]

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Don’t Give Up

March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

I you’ve come with the zeal of a novice and can’t accomplish all you desire take every opportunity you can find
to sing the Psalms in your heart and to understand them with your mind; and if your mind wanders as you read,
don’t give up, but hurry back and  try again.
~ from Saint Romuald’s Brief Rule

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