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The Angelus April 2008
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:22 AM CST |
To state the obvious is today a hazardous venture because modern man does not want to hear the plain truth. To say that white is white or that black is black is almost always to incur the hostility of the “intellectuals” and of public opinion, which they form. One is dismissed as being weak-minded, pre-historic, or in any case out of tune with today’s world if one tries today to promote the True, the Good or the Beautiful!
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:21 AM CST |
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A note from the Secretary of State of the Holy See, published on the first page of the Osservatore Romano on February 5, 2008, announced that Pope Benedict XVI had decided to modify the Good Friday prayer for the Jews in the 1962 Roman Missal. In the new version, the request that God may “deliver [them] from their darkness” and “their blindness” has been removed. The reformed prayer is formulated as follows: “that God our Lord should illuminate their hearts, so that they will recognize Jesus Christ, the Savior of all men.” It also asks that God “grant that when the fullness of peoples enters your Church all of Israel will be saved.” The text will be used, beginning this year, in all the liturgical celebrations of Good Friday with the Roman Missal, specified the note dated February 4, 2008, and addressed to all the celebrants considered as “qualified [to use it]” by the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of July 7, 2007.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:20 AM CST |
Best Wishes for A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. Congratulations!! 2007 and 2008 are memorable years for Angelus Press. In 2007, our Holy Father the Pope Benedict XVI promulgated Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum.” And 2008 is the 30th anniversary of Angelus Press. Do you have any special plan for anniversary? I would like to send my spiritual bouquet to you with this Christmas card.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:19 AM CST |
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On December 14, 2007, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith released a doctrinal note “On Certain Aspects of Evangelization.” On July 10, 2007, it had already published a study entitled “Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church.” Both texts are intended to clarify the teaching of the Second Vatican Council on ecumenism and religious liberty, thus acknowledging that the conciliar documents are not, in themselves, explicit.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:18 AM CST |
If you want to take the measure of modern society in terms of human happiness, watch the faces of the women. The female of our species is much more sensitive than the male to the things of the spirit, and whatever she feels, and is, will be written on her face after the age of 25 or 30. We are so fashion-conscious that we seldom even look at the soul of modern woman as revealed by her eyes and the lines of her face. In this way we miss observing that most American women, those emancipated and lovely ladies of commercial fiction, either cry themselves to sleep every night or are past giving way to the sorrow and frustration that encompasses them.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:17 AM CST |
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Founded in 1991 in the southern Rocky Mountains that overlook Silver City, New Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery is the home of a young community of Benedictine monks. The secluded, mountainous site, the silence of the surrounding nature, the austere beauty of the high-desert terrain all join together to bespeak the particular vocation of this monastic foundation: the primacy of contemplation, a return to the spirit of the monks of Christian antiquity who, with the blessing of the Church, established a unique way of life lived for the honor and glory of God alone.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:16 AM CST |
Through the imagination–an intellectual state fully resonant with reality yet distinct from the material world–we strive to contemplate the highest light. Imagination reinforces our prayer as we contemplate the vision of things unseen, the essences of Faith itself; it often represents our best attempts to reflect on Divine truths that lie beyond our capacity to reason and outside our ability to sense. Through Catholic mystics we glimpse the rarest of graces; God’s instilling in a soul the special facility to access Him directly through contemplation. For the majority of men, however, there remains reason, Faith, and imagination. Imagination in this sense differs essentially from fantasy. Grounded in truth, imagination seeks a more perfect–if perhaps expanded–exposition of reality; grounded in Faith, this search draws the mind toward God.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:15 AM CST |
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Many of you will be surprised to learn that the word “leisure” comes from the Latin verb “licere”; it means “that which is permitted”...to remain or to become a man. One could well make a serious examination of conscience in light of this etymology from nearly every point of view: duration, frequency, morality–for it is not permitted to grant to man leisures that kill what is human. It is not permitted to turn man away from the ultimate questions, the ones that define him as “exceptional” compared to the rest of creation. “To distract” means “to turn one away from,” and distractions that turn man away from his natural and supernatural chances for becoming “exceptional” are guilty leisures.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:14 AM CST |
Our serialization continues with the chapter of the Catechism devoted to questions of civil society. The debate about religious liberty is further explored with an analysis of the additional development of ecumenism.
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Posted on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 - 11:13 AM CST |
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Is it true to say that the difference between human beings is in the body and not in the soul?
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