The Mass and The Manger: My Interactive Christmas Story. I have been a fan of Jennifer Sharpe since she first wroteMy First Interactive Mass Book.We had a copy of that even before Ascension picked it up! The Mass and The Manger contains full page flaps that open up to reveal beautiful i...
Name any intentions or other prayers you wish to share with God. Maybe consider your response to Jesus’s call to follow Him; just as he called on Andrew and Peter, he also calls on us to let go and surrender. Conclude with the Sign of the Cross. In the name of the Father, and o...
If you want, you canemail meor post in the comments the personal intentions that you might add; I’ll copy and paste them onto a doc and keep them on my phone and pray about them in front of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Bernie’s Adoration Chapel and before or after Mass. Thanks!
For instance, if one were to pick up, say, the First Treatise without a grasp of both its background history and Locke’s intentions in composing it, one might indeed mistake Locke for an powerful advocate of a distinctively Christian theory of political consensus. Of course, such a reading...
My conversion was not a pretty one, considering how viciously I resented a Church I knew nothing about (and proud of it) prior to coming to UST. It would have never come about had I not been confronted by the Catholic faith (I had no intentions of confronting it). I chose to become...
The Gelasian sacramentary has as many as thirty-eight special forms to be intercalated at this place, in which allusions are made to all kinds of special intentions. For instance, in a requiem Mass, “which we offer to Thee for the repose of the soul of thy servant N.” (Wilson, 307...
I die a little inside when I see good adult Catholics judge teens at mass for not behaving in a way that the adult deems appropriate. I despised Sundays as a teen. The selfish adults who believe that church exists to serve as their well-ordered club did nothing to draw me toward God....
There are several different ways in which the wedding vows can be exchanged. The priest may ask the bride and groom of their intentions, they may recite the vows to each other, or they may even use vows that they have written themselves. Here are some examples of what may be said: ...
One time, an army, known for their brutal ways, approached Assisi with intentions to besiege it. They planned to target the convent first. Despite her ailing health, St. Clare displayed incredible courage. She had the Blessed Sacrament positioned against the wall, visible to the invaders. Falli...
In this way the great mass of the people were won over and organized while the two older parties were wholly occupied with their traditional quarrel. Not that eminent Catholics, such as Edouard Ducpotiaux, to mention one of the highest rank, had not sought for a long time a way of ...