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Pontifical Acts

December 30, 2008 | 4 Comments

Today the Holy Father appointed:
- Fr. P. Elio Greselin, S.C.J., former Provincial General of the Dehonian Fathers, as Bishop of Lichinga (area 129,362, population 1,084,682, Catholics 200,466, priests 29, religious 74), Mozambique. The bishop-elect was born in Tretto di Venza, Italy in 1938 and was ordained a priest in 1965.
- Archbishop [...]

Dec

30

Cassian and Ceaseless Prayer

December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment

“Everything Cassian teaches about prayer depends on the Bible. One
finds both the interplay of *meditatio* and *oratio* and the link
between imageless prayer and the spiritual interpretation of
Scripture. In Cassian’s world prayer simply could not exist outside of
a biblical environment. His map of progress in prayer leads from
multiple forms and words to simpler forms and fewer [...]