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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:25 AM CST |
The purpose of the Spiritual Exercises is straightforward and simple: to save one's soul. Just as the flabby body benefits from exercise, so does the slothful soul respond to spiritual exercise, and the Church has in the time-honored and now sadly neglected Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola the solution to the problem. A retreat dedicated to these exercises will be of far greater benefit to the melancholy than two weeks at the fat farm might be for the overly self-indulgent.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:20 AM CST |
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The attractiveness of youth is that it makes a gift of itself without counting the cost. In the practice of his duty, the ways by which a leader gives himself will be imposed on him. He gives himself according to the Scout spirit, its Law and its Oath. He gives himself according to the demands of those under his charge, though they may be quite unforeseeable and as diverse as the number looking to his leadership. For instance, the leader never makes fun of the secret confidence of a young charge. He does not judge it rashly according to his own preference. He will always draw out its higher resonance. Being all things to all men, even to the subordinate, he makes himself flexible enough to appreciate the form of the ideal confided.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:15 AM CST |
The history of Japan is a long series of conflicts between lords and of civil wars to obtain the shogunate. The political situation at the time of the missionaries' arrival was favorable to the development of Christianity. The daimyo, local feudal lords, were absolute masters in their domains and jealous of their independence. The daimyo could accept or prescribe in all freedom the Christian religion with no one to contradict them. Moreover, by embracing this religion, they gave themselves greater independence. Through the missionaries they could enter in relations with the heads of foreign states and send or receive embassies. This also explains why Christianity obtained so much success among the territorial nobility, whose example obviously had a strong influence on samurais and on the people.
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:10 AM CST |
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Ought traditional Catholic chapels to have "cry rooms"? Are there two different kinds of Secularism? Are there two different kinds of Pluralism?
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:05 AM CST |
Since our Lord Jesus Christ is now living (risen and glorious), the presence of His Body or His Blood necessitates the presence of His whole person (body, blood, soul, and divinity); His Body and Blood can no longer be separated physically. And yet, per se, merely by the power of the consecratory words, it is the Body that is made present under the appearances of the bread, and the Blood under the appearances of wine; the Body and Blood of Christ are in a certain way separated by the sacrament (because of the double consecration).
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Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 - 11:00 AM CST |
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With familiarity and time frequently comes love. How often is this so with our own homes. After many comfortable years in one house, we grow to love the place. We do not observe its defects, or we just ignore them. My home is the one place I love most. Of course, the walls are scratched and the floors are rutted, but I cherish it despite the myriad of home-improvements it needs.
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Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2007 - 08:32 AM CST |
“La Civiltà Cattolica” Breaks the Silence – On Romano Amerio
He was the most authoritative and erudite representative of criticism of the Church in the name of Tradition, but for decades the discussion of his thought was barred. The magazine of the Rome Jesuits has broken the taboo. Authorized from on high
by Sandro Magister
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Posted on Sunday, July 08, 2007 - 03:24 PM CST |
By the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI has reinstated the Tridentine Mass in its rights, and clearly affirmed that the Roman Missal promulgated by Saint Pius V had never been abrogated. The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X rejoices to see the Church thus regain her liturgical Tradition, and give the possibility of a free access to the treasure of the Traditional Mass for the glory of God, the good of the Church and the salvation of souls, to the priests and faithful who had so far been deprived of it. The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X extends its deep gratitude to the Sovereign Pontiff for this great spiritual benefit.
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