"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
So today is the last day of my sabbatical and tomorrow I’ll be back to work..but I also have Matins to sing…
Troparion of the Martyrs (Tone 5)
Communion Hymn
Prokeimenon (Tone 4)
Alleluia (Tone 4)
If we’re friends on Facebook, you may well have seen a video I posted last week:
This video is part of the Into the breach initiative from the Diocese of Phoenix. Bishop Olmsted, the Bishop of that Diocese, recently released an apostolic exhortation to men, asking them to “Step into the breach”, to fill the void in our society left by an absence of authentic masculinity. In this exhortation, the good Bishop discusses what it means to be a man and gives some of the practical guidance for living out the masculine calling in all its fullness.
I was very much impressed by this apostolic exhortation and I took it with me on my retreat this week so that I could spend some unhurried time reading through it and considering the challenges it poses. After subsequent rereading, I thought that it deserves to be more widely known, so I recorded it onto MP3, making it available to a wider audience.
Into The Breach – Introduction (Download)
The three questions and the context for answering them
Into The Breach – Question #1 (Download)
What does it mean to be a Christian man?
Into The Breach – Question #2 (Download)
How does a Catholic man love?
Into The Breach – Question #3 (Download)
Why is fatherhood, fully understood, so crucial for every man?
Into The Breach – Conclusion (Download)
Sent forth by Christ and Faith of our Fathers
If you don’t want to download multiple files, a recording of the entire document as a single MP3 is available here (80MB).