Raising the sail
“God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails…”
– St. Augustine
(Now, I’m not saying St. Augustine copied me here, but this does sound awfully familiar…)
Category: Catholicism
Deus Caritas Est
A few weeks ago I recorded the Second Vatican Counsel document which concerns the Eastern Rite Churches, Orientalium Ecclesiarum. This weekend I completed recording Pope Benedict’s first encyclical God Is Love (“Deus Caritas Est”) onto MP3.
Introduction (Download)
Part I (Download)
Part II (Download)
Pre-Marital Prayer
“They wanted to pray together, but not see each other, before the ceremony”
Mawage
As a wise man once said, “Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday”…
“Just as priests and religious lay prostrate as they make their vows to God, we felt called also to make this act of love during our wedding. As one of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal C.F.R. chanted the Litany of the Saints, both Cristina and I laid prostrate (Cristina with a little difficulty in her dress!) as we vowed to take on the cross that we had each previously carried as singles. Lying there defenseless, we both committed our lives and souls to God by entrusting them to our spouse. We committed our dreams and goals and our past and future in sacrifice to one another”
Beauty will save the world
I came across this great series on “Architectural Theology” by Denis McNamara:
More Sermons than you could shake a stick at
One of the purposes of this blog is to put people into contact with good Catholic resources. Well, today I have a doozy. Audio Sancto is a website run by a group Catholic laymen and contains well over six hundred sermons from a number of different priests, all categorized and iTunes-ready. Enjoy 🙂
Sunday Lectionary: Extraordinary Grace
As I said, I’ll still be producing these Lectionary Notes from time to time, as and when we have new people leading the JP2 Group’s Bible Study. This week Rob will be leading for the first time, so here are some notes…
Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: September 30th, 2012
Our Readings this week concern God’s gratuitous gift of His Spirit.
In the First Reading, even though Eldad and Medad were not at the Tent of Meeting, God’s Spirit falls upon them. In the Gospel, Jesus tells the disciples not to hinder the work done in His name by others simply because they didn’t belong to their group. Jesus then gives them some warnings, exhorting them to cast off anything which hinders their entrance into the Kingdom of Heaven. St. James in our Second Reading is handing out warnings too, especially to the rich.
The Sacraments are the “ordinary” means of God’s grace (although far from “ordinary”!), but God’s grace is not simply restricted to the Sacraments. So, as you go about this week, be on the lookout for God’s “extra-ordinary” grace at work…
