In art the great pope is usually shown in full pontifical robes with the tiara and double cross. A dove is his special emblem, in allusion to the well-known story recorded by Peter the Deacon (Vita, xxviii), who tells that when the pope was dictating his homilies on Ezechiel a veil ...
The Pope generally speaks diplomatically, especially to bishops. These are pretty hard words, and this is the introduction, so obviously he’s going to give some guidelines for avoiding this polarization, this grave scandal and these abuses. He says, “After the experience of more than thirty ...
THE CREATED FREEDOM. THE SMALL ANTHROPOLOGICAL SKETCH PREACHED DURING HOMILIES ON THE MEANING OF THE DECALOGUE, THE POLISH POPE SPEAKS TO THE COMPATRIlibertyJohn Paul IIdecaloguePolandanthropologyBlessed John Paul II in his homilies reminded his compatriots in 1991 that ...
In art the great pope is usually shown in full pontifical robes with the tiara and double cross. A dove is his special emblem, in allusion to the well-known story recorded by Peter the Deacon (Vita, xxviii), who tells that when the pope was dictating his homilies on Ezechiel a veil ...
Homilies 5 June 2022 – Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost (5 June 2022) Regina Caeli 5 June 2022 – Regina Caeli, Solemnity of Pentecost Speeches 30 May 2022 – To Participants in the General Chapters of the Poor Sisters and Poor Servants of Divine Providence (Don Calabria) ...
This little exercise is indeed, as Brian Coyne says on Catholica, a pleasant “distraction [from] the Melbourne Cup” and other things going on in the world, but I ask you whether it is the stuff that homilies should be made of? In the end, who are we supposed to be preaching: the...
Just as for Saint Bonaventure the theological and mystical writings were «the soul of governance», so it is for the current pope. The soul of his governance is the liturgical homilies, instruction for the faithful and the world, the book on Jesus, in short, «thought illuminated by...
For the Son of thunder, the beloved of Christ, the pillar of the Churches throughout the world, who holds the keys of heaven (Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1956), Volume XIV, Sa...
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Pope Francis recently appealed once again about the length of homilies. And the homily, that comment by the celebrant, must help to transfer the Word of God from the book to life. But for this, the homily must be brief: an image, a thought and a sentiment. The homily must not go on...