Meditation has become my Liturgy of the Hours. Opening the Calm app early in the morning, I can see that tens of thousands of people have already completed their Daily Calm session. I no longer feel like a prisoner of the internet Last year, during a visit to the Trappist Gethsemani Abbey...
“The Cross exemplifies every virtue” – Saint Thomas Aquinas from the Office of Readings Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 4:11 — 9.6MB) | Embed Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | ...
In Roman churches, Vespers were usually sung about an hour before the Ave Maria Bell. Hence, in the example above, at about 16:45 at the 23rd hour. It’s all tied into a different way of calculating the hours of the day. It also ties into the old Six Hour Clocks, you can still ...
In any case, several reviews have misunderstood this point and seem to think that what Kreeft has done in “Between Allah & Jesus” is a part of the Karen-Armstrong-style “industry” that “tries to find common ground with Islam”. But that would be entirely out of character for Professo...
presented as a specialized and complex but well-defined area, gradually and to a high extent bound by tradition, modern scholarship has increasingly shown how difficult it is to define or circumscribe what the notion covers, or what may be the margins of the notion, even in later medieval ...