(on his left) and the clergy and the religious (on his right). The white and black hounds are visual puns on Dominicans—Dominus canes(“hounds of the Lord”). Detail ofThe Church Militant and Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze, c. 1365; in the Spanish Chapel of the church of ...
The Lord’s Prayer, when prayed “in spirit and in truth”, is an entrance into Kingdom reality. “‘Our Father’ places us suddenly in an incommensurable world of eternity and vastness. … As at the beginning of any great poem, a door is opened onto another world, or a world that...
ascribed by early tradition to John and known formally as the Gospel According to John, the sons of Zebedee are mentioned only once, as being at the shores of the Sea of Tiberias when the risen Lord appeared. Whether the “disciple whom Jesus loved” (who is never named) mentioned in thi...
The belief in the Assumption underscores the idea of Mary's special place in the plan of salvation. Because she was the mother of Jesus, it is believed that she was free from original sin and did not undergo bodily decay after death. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Assumption is conside...
They fell flat on their face, and said: O most mighty, the God of the spirits of all flesh, for one man\'s sin shall thy wrath rage against all? And the Lord said to Moses: Command the whole people to separate themselves from the tents of Core and Dathan and Abiron. And Moses ...
Happy from now on are those who die in the Lord. So it is, says the Spirit, for they rest from their labors. (Book of Common Prayer) Much of what we know about St. Cuthbert is due to the eighth-century writings of the Venerable Bede, the great scholar-monk of the Early Middle Ag...
Not at all. In fact in the Latin Roman Missal, which is the typical edition that all the translations of the Missal are based on (not always translated properly, but at least based on it) the rubrics actually presuppose the Mass facing East, the Mass facing the Lord. ...
And how many times have they taught how to avoid it: by going back to the Lord. Neither rebellion nor war cure wounds nor tears; neither do they undo chains. To live as a just people does all that. Then God intervenes. What can arms and armies do against the splendor of angelic ...
Today is the feast day of George Herbert (1593-1633), one of my favorite poets. It is fitting that we remember him at the beginning of Lent, for his poems are imbued with the season’s themes of repentance and renewal. He was a student of what the Book of Common Prayer calls our ...
1780s to claim church property formerly claimed by the Church of England and to plan for a new church. Interstate conventions in 1784 and 1785 began drafting a constitution and a prayer book. In 1787 English bishopsconsecratedWhite as bishop ofPennsylvaniaandSamuel Provoostas bishop ofNew York....