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Great letter by Benedict XVI (as Prefect of CDF)... included in the link.. of the pitfalls of allowing oneself to drawn into empty 'eastern' meditation.. leaving a vacancy which Stan is quite willing to fill.

http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/cdfmed.htm

lovely.. shhhh....

I'm reading his book Behold the Pierced One for Lent and Holy Week reading.. i'm always inspired by the intricacy, subtlety and depth of this message. as well the breadth and integrity of his vision of the faith.

Saint Faustina urges us all to pray, regardless of what state we are in life. Both sinners and saints alike must pray, for God is the one who gives the strength needed to endure every trial. Without a prayer life, we are like fish out of water.

Amen!

That's one of the books that i've intended to read but haven't got around to yet Denise.

The essay to which i referred i think was this, that nicely summarizes his views on the motive and form of the Mass, and what has been lost in the Novus Ordo.

The Case for the Latin Mass

I refer back to Dietrich von Hildebrand, as part of his theology of Christian personalism, wrote an essay (i can't recall the name), about the two currents of thought on the Mass. He described the difference as one the elicits a sense of 'community' versus one whose primary emphasis is that of 'comm...

Matthew 13:44
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field."

St. Faustina - treasure finder.

You cannot accept the totality of the Christian natural and supernatural construct, without accepting the Beelzebub and his cohort are real and active in the world. The evidence is not hard to come by.

I run into those all the time. Always supported by the sophistry of the New Age.. the primacy of moral relativism, radical individualism.. material gratification as a 'human right' that usurps all commensurate responsibility to others, to society as a whole and especially to some abstract Deist 'God...

.. great stuff.

Thanx Denise.

Good points.. the word ordinary has come to mean mundane, unimportant or undistinugished in common usage.. whereas in the Church it is simply a way to denote a point in a succession of events, organized against 'cardinals' that divide the year into the liturgical calendar.

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Thanx Denise... all in my prayers.. especially for the piercing of the conscience of those with the power to commute sentences for the Greater Glory of God and his Divine Mercy on Earth. I try to find out the resolution of the cases, including the final words of the those executed, which has solidif...