Humility in Seeking Forgiveness

Are Such Gestures Necessary for Ecumenism?

If they were serious about reconciliation, could something else be done?

This may seem too much like one prelate scratching the back of another, for the same in return....

Freedom

Fr. Patrick Henry Reardon on St. Anselm's Atonement

But is the presentation of Anselm correct?

Orthodox Shaman?

A Special Jesuit Liturgy

What would St. Ignatius think of the Jesuit branding? Jesuit Swag!

Aidan Hart on the Altar and the Portico

First Things: The End of Christendom by Eamon Duffy

A review of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650 by Carlos M. N. Eire
Yale News

St. John the Divine in Jacksonville, FL

The Lord's Prayer

Men

CWR Dispatch: A fiercely intellectual book on the moral complexities of sex by Fiorella Nash
A review of Anthony McCarthy's "Ethical Sex: Sexual Choices and their Nature and Meaning"

Marian Consecration

Are Marian Consecrations, whether the version of St. Louis of Montfort or someone else, have taken a hold in the Latin West if the West had had a better liturgical spirituality and liturgical theology? Shouldn't our consecration to God the Father, initiated through Baptism which makes us adopted sons, and repeated in every Eucharist, be sufficient? What about analogues in the East?

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Total Consecration: Consecration Explained
Consecration Prayer to Mary

Jeremy Beer on David Schindler

Philosopher of Love

Fr. Hunwicke: BYZANTIUM AND RATZINGER

The Island

Ss. Cyril and Athanasius Orthodox Institute: Film ‘The Island’ now available on-line, with themes relating to studies in spirituality and repentance

Shemà Israel - Cammino Neocatecumenale

Given what I posted on Saturday... I had to post this, which I found last week. A bit odd... reminds me of 60s guitar Mass music.







The man himself:




What a traditional Jew be scandalized by this?

How long was the Shema Israel retained by the early Christians as a part of their liturgical prayer? (I assume that it was part of Jewish daily liturgical prayer at the coming of Christ.) Why wasn't it kept? Because the Torah was replaced with Christ?

Discern with the Western Dominicans

On the Tree of the Cross

Matthew Baker, Seraphim Danckaert, and Nicholas Marinides, eds., -- Jordanville: Holy Trinity Publications

Pray Tell: Is Liturgical Reform Possible? by Nicholas Denysenko