New Words for Holy Communion: April 2012

In India , the custom is to visit fourteen churches, one per Station of the Cross. Traditionally, this is performed on Maundy Thursday evening but is more often done on the morning of Good Friday or on any day of Lent. Usually, whole families would participate, customarily fasting for the duration of the rite.

It is also undertaken by parish devotional groups. In the Philippines , the tradition is called Visita Iglesia Spanish , "church visit" , where people visit churches to pray, usually reciting the Stations of the Cross. The Stations are often distributed amongst one, seven, or fourteen churches; the custom until the s was to pray all fourteen in each church. It is a chiefly urban custom, as churches are located closer to each other in cities , and supposedly because it originates in visiting the seven churches of Intramuros that stood until the Bombing of Manila.

Some Filipino liturgists [ who? In Singapore , the visiting of churches occurs shortly after the evening Mass of the Last Supper. A festive atmosphere exists, with the sale of drinks, hot cross buns and other local snacks like the traditional kueh ko chee. Observant Catholics have a 'Last Supper' meal in anticipation of the next day's fast.

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April Learn how and when to remove this template message. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter. Retrieved 11 April In the liturgies of the Three Days, the service for Maundy Thursday includes both, telling the story of Jesus' last supper and enacting the footwashing. New century reference library of the world's most important knowledge: Holy Week, or Passion Week, the week which immediately precedes Easter, and is devoted especially to commemorate the passion of our Lord. The Companion to the Book of Common Worship. All of Holy Week points toward the passion-the death and resurrection of Christ.

The week's three final days from sunset Thursday through sunset on Easter complete the commemoration of Christ's passion. These three days are called the Triduum. It was the Jewish Feast of the Passover, and the meal which they had together was the traditional Seder meal, eaten that evening by the Jews everywhere.

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New Curiosities of Literature and Book of the Months. Ascension Day, or Holy Thursday. This, as the name sufficiently implies, is the anniversary of Christ's Ascension. Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Retrieved 5 April Holy Thursday is thus sometimes called Maundy Thursday because it was on this day that Christ gave us the new commandment—the new mandate—to love one another as he loves us. Retrieved 25 March Scripture Readings listed according to the Books of the Bible". Retrieved 13 April Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, Detroit. Archived from the original on 19 February A little history of how '40 Days of Lent' came to be".

Archived from the original on 17 April Suydam Street Reformed Church. Archived from the original on 11 May These days approximately three hour periods begin on Maundy Thursday evening and conclude on Easter evening. On Maundy Thursday we hear the story of Jesus' last meal with his disciples and his act of service and love in washing their feet.

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American University in Cairo Press. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Retrieved 13 August Retrieved 26 January Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. Retrieved 22 March Maundy Thursday is the day immediately preceding Good Friday. It was also known as Shere Thursday, probably from a custom of the priests, who on this day are said to have shaved themselves and trimmed their hair, which had been allowed to grow during the preceding six weeks. An old chronicle says 'people would this day shere theyr hedes, and clypp theyr berdes, and so make them honest against Easter Day.

Mitchell, who is gay, lives with his partner Cameron and their adopted Vietnamese daughter, Lily. So we have divorce and remarriage, homosexuality and Some not at all surprizing news from the New York Times: Americans are by all measures a deeply religious people, but they are also deeply ignorant about religion.

The New York Times Researchers from the independent Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life phoned more than 3, Americans and asked them 32 questions about the Bible, Christianity and other world religions, famous religious figures and the constitutional principles governing religion in public life. On average, people who took the survey answered half the questions incorrectly, and many flubbed even questions about their own faith.

Those who scored the highest were Evangelical writer Philip Yancey offers a fascinating glimpse into life in the fundamentalist Bible College Bubble circa Yancey declines to name the school in his piece, but it's South Carolina's own Columbia Bible College - now, Columbia International University: Looking back forty years from the vantage of our belly-baring, pants-drooping, tattooed and lip-ringed society, I find it hard to resurrect the ethos of the late s at a southern Bible college where gentlemen students wore jackets and ties to dinner each evening and all men stood when a female student approached the table.

Female students had a rigid, though Why bother with the Mass and Liturgy in general? The second law of thermodynamics is one of science's biggest, boldest, chart-topping hits. It has recurred in popular science and scientific philosophy for years. The Second Law tells us that the universe runs down. The entropy of the universe relentlessly increases. Entropy is chaos, disorder, mixed-upness. In physical systems, it can be measured precisely. The Second Law tells us that nature works inexorably to disperse, to eliminate distinctions, to bring all things up or down to the same Sally Thomas and her daughter on what education is for: The girls, one by one, announced that they wanted to be lawyers.

One girl said she wanted to go into politics, maybe. A few other girls thought they'd like to do some corporate kind of job. At last my daughter's turn came. Finally someone asked, "Then why are you here? The Liturgy by grace changes lives. Any pastor who is blessed with an abundance of priestly vocations in his parish knows that they come in spite of epicene worship, demotic liturgy committees, and flailing song leaders.

They simply join the chorus of the Greeks: An excellent reflection from Alan Jacobs on much of what passes for "discourse" on the Internet, with an Anglican connection to boot. I've excerpted a large chucnk, but please read the whole thing. I have heard many of my fellow A great interview with a remarkable young woman: Miss Marks, a native of Queens, N. This fall, she begins a new life, discerning her future consecrated to Christ as a Catholic religious sister with the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, in Ann Arbor, Mich.

She and I are alumnae of the same high The third of Fr. John Parker's reflections in advance of our special collection to support the work of the Florence Crittenton Home on Assumption Day: When You Give Alms Fr. Turbulent times for the institution that is at the foundation of society; here are a few recent considerations: This ideal holds up the commitment to lifelong fidelity and support by two sexually different human beings — a commitment that involves the mutual surrender, arguably, of their reproductive self-interest — as a uniquely admirable kind of relationship.

On "Big Questions Online", a fine new website of the Templeton Foundation, Mark Vernon ponders the challenge to religious belief posed by natural selection: These familiar arguments are a distraction, however, from an even bigger evolutionary challenge to religious belief: Evolution is indeed magnificently fruitful, but it squanders, at a truly fearful rate, the life that is so supposedly valuable to God.

It is possible that swallows may sing for joy as they flit across the evening sky and flying fish may leap from the waves just because they can Herewith the second of Fr. John Parker's meditations leading up to our special collection in support of the ministry of the Florence Crittenton Home: Rejoice, O Unwedded Bride!

If one has sung it Perhaps you've seen that best-selling Vampire Diaries author Anne Rice has repudiated the Christianity she recently adopted. If not, look here. Rod Dreher ponders the apostacy and prescribes Flannery O'Connor: Look, we're all in this together. I wish we were all saints, but there's no getting around the fact that the same faith that produced the odious Pope Alexander VI Borgia also produced the Cure of Ars. The faith that gave us hotheaded segregationist preachers also inspired abolitionists and civil rights heroes.

John Parker of Holy Ascension Orthodox Church is writing a series of meditations to help us reflect on our Christian responsibility to unwed mothers and unborn children. Check back for further reflections from Fr. The Sancity of Life and the Unwed Mother. Every human person sins. See this BBC report. And here is a report from CNN: Archaeologists in Bulgaria claim they have found remains of John the Baptist while excavating the site of a 5th century monastery on the Black Sea island of Sveti Ivan.

An interesting interview with the ever-thoughtful Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams: Can we make sense of morality without a religious notion of a transcendent or supernatural being? I think that, to make sense of unconditional rights or claims, we need to be clear that there is such a thing as universal human nature and that it has some intrinsic dignity or worth. To try and ground this independently of the idea of a transcendent source of value seems to me not finally feasible.

People do, of course, make such claims, and do so in good faith, but I don't see how From classical concerts to sophisticated dinners, Liverpool Cathedral is a venue with a difference. With its magnificent gothic arches the central space offers historical beauty with a modern twist. Liverpool Cathedral is a versatile space and we are open to creative ideas. Here it is, by way of First Thoughts. From the Wall Street Journal, and apropos of Fr. Sanderson's homily this past Sunday, an assesment of Manute Bol's Christian legacy: As one twitter feed aptly put it: Manute Bol went broke building hospitals.

He turned himself into a humorous spectacle. Bol was hired, for example, as a horse jockey, hockey player and celebrity boxer.

Eucharist in the Catholic Church

Eve Tushnet on making a confession: There's an objection that Protestants sometimes pose to Catholics: Why should I confess my sins to a man, when I could simply confess alone, in my room, to God? I'm sure there are all kinds of theological answers to this question. But I want to talk about what the presence of the "other person," and the other structural elements of the sacrament, add to the experience and spirituality of confession. Praying alone in one's room, recalling one's sins and intentionally holding them up for God to inspect, can be deeply humbling.

From beneath the streets of Rome: The oldest known image of the apostles Andrew and John have been discovered in catacombs under the city of Rome, dating back to the 4th century AD, archaeologists announced Tuesday. The paintings were found in the same location where the oldest known painting of St. They are part of a group of paintings around an image of Jesus as the Good Shepherd on the ceiling of what is thought to have been a Roman noblewoman's tomb, experts said. Now Prothero is interviewed by Stephen Colbert, to our very great edification: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs What concerns me is West's insistence that the "long and painful journey" of A helpful talk on contemporary apologetic challenges, via the Dominican Province of St.

Archbishop DiNoia argues that the most effective way of overcoming challenges to faith in the uniqueness of Christ, or demonstrating the nature of the moral law, is to take the conceptual underpinnings of secularism and pluralism seriously before, in order to better make the intellectual case for Catholic faith and practice.

This show started off great, and got better as the seasons went on; the very best episodes are those of its second decade, in color, with Ken Curtis as Festus, the wise fool and television's greatest sidekick. Yes, there were saloon girls, and yes, Miss Kitty was in the early shows especially obviously Matt Dillon's woman. But it is hard to find a show more affirmative of the holiness of marriage, or the need to uphold the law, or the terrible beauty Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal on the moral example of Armando Galarraga's perfect game and the umpire who screwed blew the biggest call of his career: What was sweet and surprising was that all the principals in the story comported themselves as fully formed adults, with patience, grace and dignity.

A lot of adults don't teach kids this now, because the adults themselves don't know how to do it. There's a mentoring gap, an instruction gap in our country. We don't put forward a template Over and over again — and I have video of this — guys will stand up and risk getting hit in order to do their job up in the platoon and keep everyone safe. That is a very profound choice that a person makes for the welfare of another person. There are real parallels between the two. Mary Eberstadt one of my favorite exegetes of our culture lauds and ponders the National Gallery's soon-to-close exhibition of 16th-century Spanish religious art, "The Sacred Made Real": Here a bleeding, suffering Christ stretches tautly on the Cross, staring both piteously and pitiably at the penitent near his feet.

There a dewy yet tormented Mary Magdalen, her dazzling soiled skin wrapped roughly in a penitent's coat of rushes, hunches in sorrow over a crucifix. A statue of Saint Ignatius Loyola looms so lifelike and animated that a recitation of his Exercises seems a strong possibility.

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Many more shocks await. Maia Szalavitz, in Psychology Today: It includes data from over 14, students. Although we argue in Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered that modern child-rearing practices are putting empathy at risk, this is the largest study presented so far to quantify the decline. Previous research done by psychologist Jean Twenge had measured what she labeled The Archbishop of Canterbury has written an important letter to the bishops, clergy, and faithful of the Anglican Communion.

From the very first, as the New Testament makes plain, the Church has experienced division and internal hostilities. From the very first, the Church has had to repent of its failure to live fully in the light and truth of the Spirit. But if the Spirit is leading us all further into the truth, the Sancta Gianna ora pro nobis!

Gianna Beretta Molla may be the first saint ever canonized while her children are still alive. She spent her life in her native Italy as a physician, wife and mother.

In , pregnant with her fourth child, she developed a uterine tumor. She refused to have an abortion or hysterectomy, and insisted that if a choice had to be made between herself and the baby, doctors were to save the baby. She died at age 39, a week after giving birth to a healthy girl. Gianna was beatified in and was canonized What Christians Can Learn from Muslims. Here's an excerpt from the Introduction: Yet many Muslims, most Muslims in the West, and the vast majority in America, want to be our friends, not our enemies in our battle against our real common enemy, which is sin, Satan, selfishness and secularism.

Georgetown political philosopher Patrick Deneen: A very fine sermon on the Carthusian martyrs by Archbishop Rowan Williams: The God who has, it seems, been vanquished, is yet a God who cannot be abolished. That which is the last hope, the last longing of the condemned and tortured, remains. The cross stands while the world turns. And whatever human power and human injustice can achieve and effect, the hanged God, the In many ways, expressions of love for Mary rank among the products of Catholic devotional spirituality at its best. Men and women of every time and place have recourse to her motherly kindness and her virginal purity and grace, in all their needs and aspirations, their joys and sorrows, their moments of loneliness and their common endeavors.

In a long course of years I have made many mistakes. I have nothing of that high perfection which belongs to the writings of Saints, viz. Reflecting on a quick trip to London, Alan Jacobs points up a sad and common dissonance in Anglican life to which we can only say, "Behold the harmony which is the Church of the Holy Communion! Bart's remains, as Iain Sinclair has said, the most numinous of London's churches. The current rector seems to be Anglo-Catholic in sympathies: I smelled incense as I came in the door, and noted some classes to be offered in the thought of John Henry Newman.

And yet I saw also an assertive notice proclaiming that, whatever other churches might do, this As the Apostle saith, "They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts" Rm 2. From the New York Times, fascinating insights into the moral life of babies: Not long ago, a team of researchers watched a 1-year-old boy take justice into his own hands.

The boy had just seen a puppet show in which one puppet played with a ball while interacting with two other puppets. The center puppet would slide the ball to the puppet on the right, who would pass it back. And the center puppet would slide the ball to the puppet Christine Rosen ponders the rise in public displays of just about anything: It is not only public grooming that you'll see more of these days; public displays of affection have become more frequent and more amorous as well.

As one young Manhattan resident recently complained in the New York Times, "Everywhere I go, people are fondling each other as if the entire city were a cheap motel room. Wall Street Journal reporter Elizabeth Bernstein wrote recently of the challenge of erasing from her mind the image of a Obviously, Christians do not go on pilgrimage to Mecca, and Muslims do not practice baptism.

Religious paths do diverge in dogma, rites, and institutions. To claim that all religions are basically the same, therefore, is not to deny the differences between a Buddhist who believes in no god, a Jew who believes in one Via Front Proch Republic: When we make it a point to learn various skills, we become better equipped to help our neighbors. When we can grow a tomato, we can then share it with others. When we can build a fence, install a light fixture, or repair a carburetor, we can not only take better care of ourselves and our families, we can better serve our neighbors.

Learning to tend livestock, cultivate fruit trees, and keep bees provides the satisfaction of doing for Nor in one paragraph. In fact, in spite of the fine biographies that have been written of him, he has never been captured between the covers of one book. Orthodox theologian and general Christian provocateur David Bentley Hart laments the lameness of the New Atheism which he thoroughly eviscerated in this book: If I were to choose from among the New Atheists a single figure who to my mind epitomizes the spiritual chasm that separates Nietzsche's unbelief from theirs, I think it would be the philosopher and essayist A.

For a short time I entertained the misguided hope that he might produce an atheist manifesto somewhat richer than the others currently on offer. Unfortunately, all his efforts in that direction suffer from the same defects as those of From a review in the Times of London: I suspect that many people, Catholic or not, would form instinctive ideas about a group of women who spend the vast proportion of their days in silence, rarely venture outside of their monastery walls, and who have made vows of poverty, chastity and obedience before God.

As No Greater Love begins we are led into Call the parish office What is Financial Peace University? Most people struggle to make ends meet. They just have too much month left at the end of the money. If you have made mistakes and feel like your money vanishes each month, you are not alone.

Financial Peace University is designed to teach you and Professor Scott McKnight ponders the end of the the so-called "quest for the historical Jesus": Sitting on my desk is volume four of J. Meier's Rethinking the Historical Jesus. What began as a two-volume venture has doubled, and one or two more volumes are forthcoming.

Volume one generated all kinds of conversation; volume four entered the market with barely a notice. Sitting next to Meier on my desk is Martin Hengel's Jesus und das Judentum, over pages and perhaps the last volume from the titan of scholarship. Someone will translate Hengel, doctoral students will read it, professors will Links to the study notes. The wounds he bears, the wounds we gave him, in his hands and in his feet - these Wounds are his Glory.

It is the Shekinah of God, the glory of Jesus, that these wounds are unavenged, that rather than send a thousand legions of angels to requite the Death of a Son which you and I would do yesterday , God accepted our rage and hate against himself, against his Beloved, and loves us within these Mary Eberstadt's wise and hysterically satiric answer to the New Atheism, with a twist. I highly recommend it. A wickedly witty satire, The Loser Letters chronicles the conversion of a young adult Christian to atheism.

Amid the many current books arguing for or against religion, social critic, and writer Mary Eberstadt's The Loser Letters is truly unique: And here's an excerpt from Letter One: Dear Sirs again , First, let's talk about something You Atheist guys all like to talk about judging by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's new book, Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies, is a warning against industrialized language prevalent in contemporary America, where words "come to us processed like cheese, depleted of nutrients, flattened and packaged, artificially colored and mass marketed.

From the Perth Sunday Times: Hitler dispatched aides to swipe the sacred relic - believed to have been used to wrap the dead body of Christ - after visiting Italy in Vatican officials had it moved south from Turin to the Montevergine monastery in the country's Campania region, but the Fuhrer's henchmen eventually stumbled across the shroud's hiding place.

Their quick-thinking meant Hitler - who historians When doctors and doubters are called upon to prove miracles Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, a hematologist, lapsed Anglican and firm atheist, was desperate for work in the mids when she took on a small contract in Ottawa to interpret a set of laboratory slides for a colleague and write a report. She was given no information about the patient and assumed her report would be used in a malpractice lawsuit, which is common for that kind of blind medical analysis. Your Holy Week homilies in one convenient location: Monday in Holy Week: Dow Sanderson Maundy Thursday: Dan Clarke Good Friday: Patrick Allen Great Vigil of Easter: Dan Clarke Easter Day: Tobin's talks from the parish retreat are now available via our video page.

Keep an eye on that page for other forthcoming video from the Church of the Holy Communion!

First Holy Communion

From Bishop Lawrence's address: Finally, what is it we want for this great and historic Diocese of South Carolina? I believe this diocese wants to be able to decide under God its destiny; to have a choice as to whether it goes down the same destructive path that has caused such statistical and spiritual decline as can be seen elsewhere among so many Episcopal dioceses and parishes across this country.

I believe what we seek for this diocese is stated succinctly in Resolutions R It is to be a gospel diocese, proclaiming an evangelical faith, embodied in a catholic order, The Mass of the Lord's Supper, 6. Stations of the Cross, Great Vigil of Easter, 8. Amazing views of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - just in time for a Holy Week virtual pilgrimmage. Georgetown professor of political philosophy Patrick Deneen on the twin moral shoals presented by food and sex: I was struck by the juxtaposition of these events, since both dealt with the elemental kinds of appetite — for food and sex.

Those two objects of our desire — both derived from instincts and impulses of the human body — are linked together by Aristotle in his discussion of the origins of political community. This Lent, Bishop Lawrence has written two very helpful pastoral letters so far on Lenten disciplines. Herewith are excerpts and links: It is especially appropriate during the forty days of Lent. New York Times columnist and token faithful Catholic reflects on a recent essay by theologian Luke Timothy Johnson regarding modern mysticism: And yet Johnson may be right that something important is being lost as well.

For many Anglicans, the possibility opened by this initiative has seemed to be a logical development of the official dialogues between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church during the 45 year period since the end of Herewith a white photographer's journey into the churches of African Americans in the South Carolina low-country.

The project was born when photographer Stanley F. Lanzano was vacationing at a posh inn on Pawley's Island. The inn made for a lovely getaway: But what "intrigued" Lanzano was the "silent black staff. They moved slowly, their eyes kept low …. And I think I recognize our newest boat boy on the cover. It's also available from local music retail outlets. And Frank can hook you up after Mass. Frank's website is here. A look at the cover of Frank Royster's newest solo album, you'll see the image of his 5-year old son standing, lifting up a giant blue sphere.

Charlotte Hays in the Wall Street Journal: On a recent evening, about 60 people—ex-Episcopalians, curious Catholics and a smattering of earnest Episcopal priests in clerical collars—gathered downtown for an unusual liturgy: Beautiful evensongs are a signature of Protestant Episcopal worship. Benediction, which consists of hymns, canticles or litanies before the consecrated host on the altar, is a Catholic devotion. We were getting a blend of both at St. Mary Mother of God Church, lent for the occasion Here's an interesting essay advancing the thesis that the Christian imagination lends itself to fantasy i.

Lewis was always clear that he did not set out to write The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe as a didactic project. It began, he said, with an image in his head of an umbrella-toting faun standing in the snow. Nonetheless, when he wrote the Narnia books, Lewis drew deeply from his Christian beliefs. In this, he and the many Christian fantasy writers have an advantage over Many of you will have read that we hosted the national gathering of the Anglo-Catholic Rectors Conference here a few weeks ago.

It was a very helpful, encouraging and rewarding experience. It was good to meet new friends, and to reconnect with acquaintances of long standing. And of course, one of the best things about such gatherings is the opportunity to hear and share stories. Reid, the Rector of St. Clement's, Philadelphia, for example, is a regular raconteur, and he kept me in stitches the entire time.

He shared with us regarding his parish, We The scale of contemporary life is so vast that it is hard to fathom. For most of us, completing even the most homebound tasks — using the bathroom, eating a meal — involves us massive networks of pipe and road, transportation and production, people and Catherine's manuscript was so rich that, in the 19th century, an unscrupulous dealer divided and recombined the pages as two separate volumes.

The Morgan Library, which owns both parts, has had the books disbound prior to reassembly in their original order minus From Newsweek, via "First Thoughts": Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist waves a hand over his discovery here, a revolution in the story of human origins. Schmidt has uncovered a vast and beautiful temple complex, a structure so ancient that it may be the very first thing human beings ever built.

The site isn't just old, it redefines old: The ruins are so early that they I'm a big fan of singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, whose new album Downtown Church as the title suggests has a heavy gospel influence. I was thinking, nice little church out in the country, one of those Audio from our Lenten Lectures, including Fr. Tobin's talks from the parish retreat go ahead and register for this year's edition here is available on this page.

Hear us, O Lord, have mercy upon us: To thee, Redeemer, on thy throne of glory: O thou chief cornerstone, right hand of the Father: God, we implore thee, in thy glory seated: A blizzard of winter weather on the Eastern seaboard was matched this past week by a flurry of activity from the Episcopal Church Center. At the same time, South Carolina Bishop Mark Lawrence revealed that the Presiding Bishop's office had retained an attorney in South Carolina who was apparently laying the groundwork for a And yes, Virginia, there will be compote.

Courtesy of the Dominican Province of St. Family Life and Lentby Fr. Do you need Lent this year or are you planning on doing without it, or don't you think about such things ahead of time at all? God has called you to holiness, which is another way of saying that He has invited you into intimate friendship with Him.

Lent is a good time to invest more deeply into that friendship. How will you be investing yourself more radically into that friendship this Lent? Will your experience of Lent be a rather personal and private How could this happen to people who are already suffering so much? As the images first hit my television screen, a deep sense of sadness came over me. Though I prayed, the sadness and helplessness did not go away. I wanted to do something more than sit in my warm kitchen and write a check. But what can I do? I have five young children, no Click image for more photographsFrom the Diocesan website: Diocese Responds to Earthquake on Haiti January 13, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, "You will be enriched in every way for great generosity, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God; for the rendering of this service not only supplies the wants of the saints but also overflows in many thanksgivings to God.

Many of our parishes have made mission trips and established ongoing relationships with the Diocese of Haiti, with Bishop Duracin James Schall explains the calendar s: We Catholics live, as it were, in a double time zone. We live in cosmic time. The ages of the universe, Sun, and planet are behind us but still go on. We also live in creation-redemption time. The Liturgical Year keeps our attention on this second time, the time that really counts.

For those who live only in cosmic time, their lives mean relatively little or nothing. Even if they suspect that their lives have some purpose, they have little light on what it might be. They are but one of the hundreds of So,The Feast of the Epiphany: Lawrence during Sunday School beginning 9. An article in Biblical Archeology Review examines the foundations of the traditiona date of our Lord's Nativity, December 25 and it doesn't have anything to do with pagan festivals: The earliest mention of December 25 as Jesus' birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century Roman almanac that lists the death dates of various Christian bishops and martyrs.

The first date listed, December 25, is marked: Still, the disappearance of Advent seems especially disturbing—for it's injured even the secular Christmas season: More tinsel, more tassels, more glitter, more glee—until the glut of candies and carols, ornaments and trimmings, has left almost nothing for Christmas Day. For much of America, Christmas itself arrives nearly as an afterthought: Philosopher Ralph McInerny reflects on, and responds to, our consumerist culture's subversion of Christ's Mass: Morose delectation is more often a temporary grace than a settled view of life, but longevity brings the feeling that one has outlived his time, that there are events it would have been better not to see, that human folly is a bottomless resource.

An Orthodox Perspective Join us for our first Wednesday night program of the Fall. Our own Molly Walker will show photographs and report on her summer-long mission trip to the Dominican Republic and invite us to consider enlarging that mission with a group from Holy Communion next summer. All links now updated. Sermons may streamed or downloaded from the homilies pages , , from the podcast page, from iTunes see below , or you may subscribe to the RSS feed. The audio links on the Homilies page for Jan.

To listen to those sermons, please go to our podcast page: Sanderson's homiliy from the Clarke-Fleming wedding is available. Click here to download or listen. The rest, including Fr. As of today, we have our first Church of the Holy Communion sermon available for audio download or online listening - not that any of you ever miss Mass, but because some of you just can't get enough good preachin'! From that page you may listen to individual sermons as they become available, or download them to your computer, or even subscribe to an RSS feed to automatically sync with your computer or. We are grateful for all your prayers and many kindlnesses toward us.

We'll add more pictures soon. Reverend Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh. I have known Bob for close to 20 years, as a fellow priest in the diocese of Pittsburgh, as my Bishop for a year or so in Pittsburgh, and then as a colleague in the struggles of The Episcopal Church. The discussion regarding Lambeth on Wednesday morning and And in this election year more than ever, we are seeing the long-time obstacles of race and gender being overcome.

We always seem to be touched and inspired by those who work hard and succeed Yesterday in the Wall Street Journal: It also shows that the irreligious and the members of more liberal Protestant denominations, far from being resistant to superstition, tend to be much more likely to believe in the paranormal and in pseudoscience than evangelical Christians. The Gallup Organization, under contract to Baylor's Institute for Studies of Religion, asked American adults a series of questions to gauge credulity.

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First Sunday in Lent Fr. Chris Thompson on February 18, Read the full post. Last Sunday after the Epiphany Fr. Dan Clarke on February 18, Read the full post. February Read the full post. Chris Thompson on January 19, Read the full post. Chris Thompson on January 10, Read the full post. Chris Thompson on December 31, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on December 24, Read the full post. Chris Thompson on November 13, Read the full post. All Saints' Sunday Fr. Dan Clarke on November 13, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on October 24, Read the full post. Transfiguration of Our Lord Fr.

Dan Clarke on August 13, Read the full post. Chris Thompson on August 13, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on July 30, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on July 9, Read the full post. Chris Thompson on July 9, Read the full post. Martins on June 25, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on June 12, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on June 9, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on May 27, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on May 7, Read the full post.

David McSwain on May 1, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on April 23, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on April 17, Read the full post. The Great Easter Vigil Fr. Dow Sanderson on April 16, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on April 2, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on March 19, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on March 4, Read the full post. The Last Sunday of Epiphany Rt. Adams on March 1, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on February 25, Read the full post. David McSwain on February 18, Read the full post.

Randy Morgan on February 12, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on February 5, Read the full post. David McSwain on January 29, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on January 22, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on January 15, Read the full post. Profiles Read the full post. Dan Clarke on January 8, Read the full post. The Nativity of Our Lord Fr. Dow Sanderson on December 29, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on December 24, Read the full post. David McSwain on December 18, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on December 11, Read the full post.

Dow Sanderson on December 4, Read the full post. Christ The King Fr. Randy Morgan on November 26, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on November 12, Read the full post. All Saints' Day Fr. David McSwain on November 5, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on October 31, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on October 29, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on October 23, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on October 3, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on September 29, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on September 23, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on September 6, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on September 1, Read the full post.

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Randy Morgan on July 13, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on June 28, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on June 20, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on June 14, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on June 7, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on May 31, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on May 23, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on May 16, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on May 11, Read the full post. The Fifth Sunday of Easter Fr. Dow Sanderson on April 29, Read the full post. The Fourth Sunday of Easter Fr. Dan Clarke on April 18, Read the full post. The Third Sunday of Easter Fr.

Randy Morgan on April 13, Read the full post. Rev'd Charles vonRosenberg on April 3, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on March 27, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on March 27, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on March 24, Read the full post. The Fifth Sunday in Lent Fr. Randy Morgan on March 13, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on March 6, Read the full post. Third Sunday in Lent Fr. Dan Clarke on March 2, Read the full post.

Dow Sanderson on February 22, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on February 18, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on February 7, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on February 4, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on January 27, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on January 21, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on January 16, Read the full post. David McSwain on January 9, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on January 4, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on December 27, Read the full post.

Dow Sanderson on December 25, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on December 21, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on December 13, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on December 7, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on November 30, Read the full post. The Last Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dow Sanderson on November 22, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on November 16, Read the full post. Randy Morgan on November 8, Read the full post.

All Saint's Sunday Fr. Dan Clarke on November 1, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on October 25, Read the full post. Dow Sanderson on October 18, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on October 13, Read the full post. Dan Clarke on September 27, Read the full post. The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dow Sanderson on September 21, Read the full post. The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Randy Morgan on September 8, Read the full post. The Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dan Clarke on August 30, Read the full post. The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Fr.

David McSwain on August 25, Read the full post. Mary the Virgin Fr. Dan Clarke on August 16, Read the full post. The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Randy Morgan on August 10, Read the full post. The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dan Clarke on August 2, Read the full post. The Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dow Sanderson on July 29, Read the full post. The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Randy Morgan on July 16, Read the full post. Homily by Robert Wallace: Mass in Thanksgiving for our Nation's Independence Fr.

Dow Sanderson on July 7, Read the full post. The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Dan Clarke on June 22, Read the full post. Requiem Mass for the Charleston Martyrs Fr.