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Lent
Mar 2, 2010 11:40:04 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Mar 2, 2010 11:40:04 GMT
wdtprs.com/blog/2010/03/whereing-fr-z-rants-about-sand-in-holy-water-fonts-dont/Fr. Zuhlsdorf comments about the practice of removing Holy Water from fonts during Lent and reproduces a Vatican document pointing out that the Lenten Fast does not extend to "fasting" from sacraments and sacramentals, since the purpose of these is to assist us in the struggle of which the fast is part. This should also be borne in mind when reading the suggestion of certain persons - whether naive or mischiefmaking - in the IRISH TIMES letters page that we should "fast" from going to Mass as a form of reparation for clerical child abuse.
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Lent
Mar 11, 2011 19:29:25 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Mar 11, 2011 19:29:25 GMT
Here we go again. As usual I am trying to give up meat (except when I am someone's guest), sweets and cakes, and to get to daily Mass (though I haven't had much success so far, due to work pressure). The Divine Office seems a lost cause for the moment, also due to work pressure.
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Lent
Mar 12, 2011 6:23:43 GMT
Post by guillaume on Mar 12, 2011 6:23:43 GMT
Well done Hibernicus. Perso, I am becoming Tea Total, means no Alcohol for 40 days. I also trying to recite the Rosary mentally at least everyday and read spiritual books. Regarding Mass, there is only Paul VI mass closed to me. So going there on a daily basis will be a real penance ;D ;D ;D (joking).
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Lent
Mar 14, 2011 11:00:12 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Mar 14, 2011 11:00:12 GMT
;D ;DShouldn't that be "close" to you, Guillaume - I don't suppose they slam the door in your face!
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Lent
Apr 19, 2011 14:27:38 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Apr 19, 2011 14:27:38 GMT
I will be posting very little if at all for the next week or so. Teh reading of the passion on Sunday reminds us that we are all complicit in the sleep and flight of the apostles, the betrayal of Judas, the blindness of the chief priests; it is we who choose Barabbas, not once but over and over again, who hand him over like Pilate in the name of expediency; it is we who sneer at the vulnerable, as the soldiers sneered as Jesus and assumed because they beat him he could not be a true prophet - it is we who beat and nail Him to the Cross. But we can also join his suffering sto our own - we can help to lighten them by lightening our neighbour's sufferings, as Simon of Cyrene did - we can also stand by the Croos with Our lady and St John when all seems hopeless - we can also see Him in the stranger as the centurion did, we can bury Him in our hearts as Jospeh of Arimathea did in his tomb - and like the good thief and like St Peter He calls us to open our hearts, confess our faults, place ourselves at His service and join with HIm in triumph over death. As St Patrick is said to have illumined our land with the Pascal fire, may Ireland be reilluminated with the Faith. As our ancestors followed Jesus and slept with Him in death, may they rise with Him in resurrection, and may we join them forever. May He send the Holy Spirit once more to renew us all as we struggle on the path to Calvary,whether we get there after a long lifetime or a short. As our bodies wither and decay with age as His did under the Cross, He will renew them as He renewed His glorified body, if we open our hearts to Him. May we all have a rejoicing Easter after this long Lent, and may Jesus christ give His peacce to us all, now and in eternity.
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Lent
Apr 20, 2011 16:07:46 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Apr 20, 2011 16:07:46 GMT
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Lent
Apr 23, 2011 21:58:58 GMT
Post by hibernicus on Apr 23, 2011 21:58:58 GMT
CHRIST IS RISEN! At the easter Vigil which I attended just now the oriest sooke at the end about what a consolation it was for him, in his 80s and failing health to say ass here every year; he spoke of our loved ones and told us to reassure them the God would never desert us and the gates of Hell would never prevail. Pray to the risen Christ for him and for all faithful pritests, that they may be strengthened.
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