Lord make me like You Lord you are my everything Lord, accept this bread and wine Lord, You have touched my heart Lose yourself in me Love has captured the night Make me a servant Make me an instrument Maranatha, Maranatha, Maranatha ...
The Te Deum is now intoned by the consecrator, and while the hymn is being sung the new bishop is led by the assistant bishops through the church, that he may bless the people. Having returned to the altar—or to the throne in his own cathedral—the bishop gives the final solemn ...
as if one figure dissolved into another, and from these different spheres of light other heavenly figures issued. Mary continued in prayer, her eyes bent low upon the ground. At that moment she gave birth to the Infant Jesus. I saw Him like a tiny, shining child...
Celebrate Mother’s Day a Different Way (Originally published in CL 5/7/13 With Mother’s Day approaching, like any modern day mom, I am looking forward to celebrating the day. I must admit, I love breakfast in bed, I love receiving the gifts, the flowers, the homemade cards. I part...
the evils of the time; and the long alliance with France of course brought the French and Scottish churches into a close connection which was in many ways advantageous, although one effect of it was that Scotland, like France, espoused the cause of the anti-popes against the rightful ...
Kingdom itself. The seed and beginning of the Kingdom are the little flock of those whom Jesus came to gather around him, the flock whose shepherd he is. They form Jesus’ true family. To those whom he thus gathered around him, he taught a new way of acting and a prayer of their ...
“[I]f the Word of God waited for forty-two generations in order to come ‘when time had taken a downward plunge’ (cursu declivi temporis), as the Advent hymn has it, it is because God, like a good physician, comes when he is most needed: somehow, to be fully rejuvenated, the ...
They were those kind of needles that in Italian are called spilletti or spillettoni, which have a round head, like a ball-grip. In Venetian they are called aghi col pomelo: acus a pomedello. When he was questioned why they had hurt the baby in such a way and why they punctured him...
Pope: May we seek and recognize Jesus like the Shepherds and Magi Pope at Epiphany Mass: Star calls all to seek Christ in pilgrimage Pope encourages children to be missionaries in prayer Global Church News Hope kindness makes the world more beautiful ...
In the night Office, the holy Church also suspends, on those same days, the hymn of jubilation, Te Deum laudamus. It is in deep humility that she awaits the supreme blessing which is to come to her; and, in the interval, she presumes only to ask, and entreat, and hope. But let ...