reflections, I point out that being now retired from parish responsibilities and living the hermitical life, leaving the hermitage a couple of days each week to serve the poor in a soup kitchen, I treasure the time to put down on paper what has flowed from the decades of parochial service...
Lex orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi. Loosely translated: “The norm of prayer governs the norm of belief; the norm of belief governs the norm of living.” Many priests nowadays (including myself) are asking, “What if there’s deficientlexin theorandi? Won’t that diminish thecredendiand...
to serve the New Covenant of God(2 Corinthians 3:4–6). Thus even the Apostle Paul saw this ministry to beanalogousto the priesthood of the Old Covenant (Romans 15:16). The prophets of the Old Testament foresaw that God would call a new order ofpriestsin service of His New Covenant, ...
the duty of each day required—for their service according to their offices, by their divisions.17The enrollment of the priests was according to their fathers' houses; that of the Levitesfrom twenty years old and upward was according to their offices, by their divisions.18They were enrolled ...
All the apostles are there, all the shepherd disciples, also Jonathan, whom Chuza has dismissed from his service. There is Marjiam and Manaen and many of the seventy two disciples and many more. They are in the shade of trees, which with their foliage miti...
(4) The number required for a public service. (5) In the absence of a quorum of ten, a number of important features in the service are omitted. (6) Sc. the congregational responses. Isa. L, 2. (7) Aliter: Alas, the pious man (is no more)! (8) Cf. previous note. (9) Gen...