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Music Monday: You wouldn’t mind

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We’ll be leaving classical music for the next few weeks. I know I’ve shared this video in an earlier Wise Words on Wednesday post, but I think it’s so good, I want to post it again. Here’s Theology Of The Body in a song, Colleen Nixon‘s “You wouldn’t mind”:

My lips aren’t kissable they’re normally chapped
but you wouldn’t mind, baby you wouldn’t mind
My hair is frizzy I don’t straighten it flat
but you wouldn’t mind baby you wouldn’t mind…

…because you love me completely
you won’t separate my body from my soul
I’m so lucky that you chose me
I can’t wait to spend my life with you

My eyes are brown and you don’t wish they were blue
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that
You don’t have to say “I love you” cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that…

Body and soul, body and soul our love is always becoming
and it’s dependent upon, the way we die to ourselves
and the depth of our commitment to loving the body and soul, body and soul,
I will give and never take
I’m so faint with love for you body and soul, body and soul
I love you body and soul, body and soul

You don’t have to say I love ’cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that

Pope Benedict on “Faith Alone”

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Today I want to share a quotation I often refer to on the subject of justification and the Protestant doctrine of Sola Fide. Often non-Catholics will tell us (incorrectly) that we believe in salvation by works. For this reason, I think it’s useful to hear what Pope Benedict has to say on the primacy of faith in salvation, and even the sense in which Luther was right, that we are saved by “faith alone”…

Being “just” simply means being with Christ and in Christ. And this suffices. Further observances are no longer necessary. For this reason Luther’s phrase: “faith alone” is true, if it is not opposed to faith in charity, in love. Faith is looking at Christ, entrusting oneself to Christ, being united to Christ, conformed to Christ, to his life. And the form, the life of Christ, is love; hence to believe is to conform to Christ and to enter into his love. So it is that in the Letter to the Galatians in which he primarily developed his teaching on justification St Paul speaks of faith that works through love

– Pope Benedict XVI, Wednesday Audience, 19th November 2008

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Top Ten Reasons to be an Altar Boy

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In the parish where I grew up it was understood that, upon receiving their First Holy Communion, boys were then eligible for training to become altar servers. I followed in this tradition and became an altar boy at the age of eight. Even after we changed parishes, every week I served on the altar and did so for many years. I continued to serve regularly until after I completed university and, even then, when I was back home visiting my family I would typically don my cassock and carry a candle on Sundays.

I loved being an altar server and I think that all parents should consider encouraging their sons to become altar boys. In this post I’d like to share my top ten reasons why altar serving is great…

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