The project also reflects a renewed sense of mission for the Diocese of Orange, California.
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Very few things are truly unprecedented in the life of the Church, but a Catholic cathedral built inside of a former Protestant church is one of them.
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The liturgical calendar puts before us the principal mysteries of the faith. We don’t so much learn the faith in order to live it as much as we live the faith in order to learn it. And the liturgy is the primary place where we live the faith as we are embraced by God’s holy word and sacraments.
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There are burdens, often undeserved, that accompany every path in life. The priesthood is no exception, and the burdens of our life are not without blessings.
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Liturgical time is what frees us from the prison of mere chronological time, of being trapped in history which is just one damned thing after another. We need to live God’s time, which is one holy thing after another.
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There could be no justice in Europe without a free Poland on the map, and there could be no just accounting of Poland’s identity and mission without including its faith in God.
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With the cathedra now in the central place, the entire architectural focus of the cathedral is on the bishop’s seat, including at the vast majority of Masses when he is not present.
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Vanier founded a human movement, rooted in the Biblical conviction that the deepest meaning of being human is discovered in God’s revelation that we are made in His image and likeness.
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This Good Friday, will we feel – at the moment that the death of Jesus on the cross is liturgically commemorated – that something greater than Notre Dame has been lost?
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To contend with God’s purposes is a perplexity that serves Him, for His purposes then occupy our minds and hearts.
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We sometimes think of prophecy as predicting the future, a look ahead in chronos but it is more accurate to think of prophecy as kairos, revealing the deeper meaning of events.
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Reconciliation, mercy, healing – all is possible on the other side of the experience of evil and horrific violence. The monks of Tibherine especially demonstrated that the seeds of reconciliation are planted by those who refuse to be conquered by fear and hate.
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It’s been three years since I last recommended books for Christmas gifts, so it’s time again. Permit me to recommend four books this year, all involving friends of mine.
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We are not strangers in our own country. We should not act like it. We are not ashamed of the Gospel. We should not act like it.
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The life of discipleship, a blessing in itself, can be experienced as a burden in a fallen world. That’s true too in marriage and family life.
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The heart of Cardinal Wojtyła trembled in 1978, but his heart was strong, every day carrying within it Peter’s conversation with the Risen Jesus, until that day when that heart was finally stilled by a body that had grown weak.
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Ken Woo’s painting departs from the traditional depiction of angels holding the instruments, opting instead just for two angels, with a collection of instruments of the Passion suspended above them. And here we find presentation of the instruments that is familiar and new.
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The dubia regarding Amoris Laetitia and Veritatis Splendor have gone unanswered, leaving individuals, including bishops and priests, to work out how to proceed when the latter condemns what the former proposes. The easiest solution is simply to ignore that Veritatis Splendor exists.
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