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WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: Liturgy should be “epiphany”, wherein we encounter transforming mystery.
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important … Continue reading
Posted in Christmas and Epiphany, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Patristiblogging, WDTPRS
Tagged Epiphany, glory, heaven, liturgy, manifestation, mystery
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WDTPRS – Epiphany Collect: transformed by the beauty of Your sublime glory
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged church, Epiphany, glory, heaven, liturgy, manifestation, mystery
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Your Sunday Sermon Notes
Was there a good point or two in the sermon you heard for your Mass of Sunday obligation? Let us know. For my part, I spoke about different kinds of suffering and about the fact that everything we might endure … Continue reading
WDTPRS – Epiphany (Sunday) Collect: transformed by the beauty of Your sublime glory
In the Novus Ordo calendar Epiphany (which is supposed to be 12 days after Christmas – the reason it is called “Twelfth Night”) is sometimes moved to the Sunday. I suppose that they reasoned that more people would celebrate the important … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, WDTPRS
Tagged church, Epiphany, glory, heaven, liturgy, manifestation, mystery
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“Welcome to Hell! Here’s your ice cream!”
It has been sometime since I posted anything from Savage Chickens. (I wonder where the Masked Chicken” got himself off to, anyway. You don’t suppose The Colonel finally caught up to him, do you?) New Hell! How jolly. While we, … Continue reading
Artist Daniel Mitsui’s VERY COOL new art, including a “Four Last Things”. (Fr. Z rants a little.)
The artist Daniel Mitsui, in his newsletter, indicates that he has new art, including a representation of the Glorious Mysteries (a nice gift to a priest after Easter) and – this really caught my eye – the Four Last Things! … Continue reading
Posted in Four Last Things, Fr. Z KUDOS, REVIEWS, The Campus Telephone Pole, Wherein Fr. Z Rants
Tagged art, artist, Daniel Mitsui, De novissimis, death, death panels, Four Last Things, heaven, hell, judgment, Kelmscott Chaucer, Ordination Tambourine, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Pres. Obama, religious art
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Reader Feedback about going to confession
From a reader: Dear Fr Z Until today, I had not been to confession (and therefore not taken Communion) this calendar year. My spiritual life was decaying and I was “lapsing”, having lost trust and hope in the saving grace … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Will I go to heaven if I die in the state of grace?
From a reader: Would it be accurate to say that if one were in the state of grace at death, one can be assured of reaching heaven after being purified in purgatory? If you die in the state of grace, … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, Just Too Cool
Tagged grace, heaven, Purgatory, state of grace
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PODCAzT 104: A glimpse of heaven, “the Love that moves the sun and other stars”
No eye has seen and no ear has heard what God has prepared for those who attain the bliss of heaven. Christ has won for us the most precious gift of all: membership in the Kingdom of God. It is … Continue reading
Posted in PODCAzT
Tagged dante, Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy, heaven, Paradise, Paradiso
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