Tag Archives: tradition

A Year of Adoration

It’s a cool coincidence that my wedding is in the inaugural month of the Year of
the Eucharist. 🙂

John
Paul II Convokes “Year of the Eucharist”

From October 2004 to October 2005

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 10, 2004 (Zenit.org).- On the feast of Corpus Christ, John Paul
II announced a “Year of the Eucharist” that the Catholic Church will observe
from October 2004 to October 2005.

Pope
Explains Why He Convoked “Year of the Eucharist”

Church’s Program Is to Start Afresh From Christ, He Says

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 13, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II said he convoked the “Year
of the Eucharist” because the program he presented to the Church at the start
of the millennium is based on “starting afresh from Christ.”

Our Lady of the Parkway

Most of the content in Pittsburgh City Paper is a bit raw, but this article is interesting and respectful.

Mass Transit

My office looks out over I-376 to the hill next to Bates Street. During the winter, I noticed wooden crosses and a white sculpture that looked like the Virgin Mary on the hillside. What is it?

Question submitted by: Vivienne Marshall, Glenshaw

Writer: CHRIS POTTER

You are not the first to have a vision of the Virgin Mary on that spot, though in its long history of religious visionaries, you may be among the few to identify a two-foot-tall statue from across a six-lane highway.

Communing With Judas

This question about whether Judas partook of Christ’s flesh at the Last Supper has bearing on the current Eucharistic politicla controversy.

Judas receiving the Eucharist

Question from Mary on 05-27-2004:

Dear Father Why did Jesus allow Judas to receive Communion at the last Supper? Was’nt he in mortal sin at that time or was it still at the stage of being a venial sin? Thanks Mary

Devotion

This article interested me because my wedding will be on the Feast of Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. It should be of general interest because more people, particularly those with families, should have a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. I must confess that I haven’t cultivated one myself, but I fully intend to.

Three Streams, One Love

The Story of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Ann Bottenhorn

Sometimes, the voice of a saint echoes clearly to us down through the centuries.

As a young adult, I found myself struggling, in the ordinary way of young people, with feeling alienated from God. In a fit of teenage rebellion, I had told God to get out of my life and leave me alone. Now, entangled in patterns of sin that I was powerless to unravel, I needed God’s help but didn’t know how to get it. I didn’t even know if it was possible.

Calling Real Men

Where
Are God’s Warriors and Wild Men?

Doug Giles

Have you ever asked yourself, “Self, why do churches today look more like
the lingerie department at Wal-Mart, than a battalion of men poised to plunder the
powers of darkness?” Why do men avoid going to church, and what can be done about
it? Certainly, the lack of men in church is not at all difficult to see. Just open your eyes any Sunday morning and go to church. Then, count the number of ladies in the pews, and the number of men. The result: you’re slapped in the face with the low grade gin-like reality that men are avoiding church like a psycho avoids reality.

I don’t know about hiring “a pastor who throws off a good John Wayne vibe”, but “Bishop” Gene Robinson certainly isn’t
the answer. BTW, this isn’t a new problem. G.K. Chesterton talked about it.

“…certain phrases in the Epistles or the marriage service, were said by the
anti-Christians to show contempt for woman’s intellect. But I found that the anti-Christians
themselves had a contempt for woman’s intellect; for it was their great sneer at
the Church on the Continent that ‘only women’; went to it.”