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On this day
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awelborn
Deacon Greg Kandra takes us back to Pope John Paul’s General Audience on September 12, 2001: I cannot begin this audience without expressing my profound sorrow at the terrorist attacks which yesterday brought death and destruction to America, causing thousands of victims and injuring countless people. To the President of the United States and to…
Mass at St. Stephen’s
By
awelborn
The Pope’s homily from today’s Mass in Vienna: Of course, if we listen to today’s Gospel, if we listen to what the Lord is saying to us, it frightens us: “Whoever of you does not renounce all that he has and all links with his family cannot be my disciple.” We would like to object:…
Mass at Mariazell
By
awelborn
For now – I mean for now – we’re going to ignore the whole Amazing Technicolor Vestments issue. And the Pikachu ball. (?!) And we’ll meditate on the homily. Okay? (Remember, this is Saturday’s outdoor Mass, the feast of the Nativity of Mary.) “To gaze upon Christ” is the motto of this day. For one…
At the monastery
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awelborn
One of the Pope’s last activities today in Austria was a visit to the Heiligenkreuz Abbey – the oldest continuously active Cistercian Abbey in the world. Here’s the official site in English. (Cistercians are a reformed, more severe observance of the Benedictine Rule, originated in the 11th century at the Abbey of Cîteaux. Trappists are…
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