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AD 2008/05/19 – Monday

Religious News

Pope Benedict XVI looks up to the balcony to see the Sacred Music Ensemble sing a peace prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi during a meeting with representatives of other religions at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington, Thursday, April 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

~ BENEDICT IN AMERICA; The Pope at the U.N.; A what-now? “Behind me, in the outfield, there is a 75-foot-high altar.” …. (anchoressonline)

~ COULD REPORTING on this get the National Post in trouble? …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WORLD-RENOWNED evangelical author, scholar, preacher J.I. Packer Leaves the Canadian Anglican Church Of Zeitgeist, Canadian Branch …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ FUNNY the people crying censorship have not mentioned this …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ POLITICAL BLINDNESS: “An ignorant response to the Passion”.. “One thing’s for sure: the Left – and that includes many people in the Catholic establishment – will never forgive James MacMillan for turning his back on the comfortable formulae of secular socialism. But their loss is the Church’s gain – and music’s, too” …. (holysmoke)

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Religious News

~ MICHELLE MALKIN: Blogging the Pope …. (michellemalkin)

~ PM HARPER: “Deliver us from evil” …. (p2bc)

~ B16 ON JP2— Death Was the Seal of an Existence Totally Given to Christ. John Paul the Great – William Oddie …. (freerep, ignatiusinsight)

~ CHINA’S VILE persecution of Christians …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ POPE’S MESSAGE to the Catholic Faithful of the U.S.; Pope to visit Ground Zero …. (pblosser.blog)

~ DAWN EDEN— “Catholics Already Incensed at the Church Being in Their Bedrooms Discover Church in Additional Rooms.” …. (dawneden.blog)

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EasterTide

~ BETTNET— “No Easter, no Good Friday for this Sunday school” …. (bettnet.com)

~ EASTER vs. Irony …. (catholicexchange)

~ MOHLER: “Must One Believe in the Resurrection to be a Christian?” …. (albertmohler.com)

~ LIBERAL WEENIES spit on Easter in a National Magazine. Never seen THAT before. “The newest view of Christ-activist, politician, not very Christian-is hard to square with the Bible’s. Now some believers even say the faith might be better off without him.” …. (macleans.ca)

~ WHY IS THE festival of Christ’s Resurrection called Easter? …. (cantuar.blog)

~ EASTER Answers – Big Truths for Little Kids, Part One …. (freerep)

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Tuesday, March 11th, A.D. 2007

LENTEN & PASCHAL LINKS ….

~ LENT IS A GOOD TIME to work on our character …. (catholicexchange)

~ FORGIVENESS and Paradise – Dostoevsky …. (fatherstephen)

~ FELIX HOMINUM— lenten series: Dante’s Divine Comedy pt 7: violence against God. lenten series: Dante’s Divine Comedy pt 6: the Circle of the Violent. lenten series: Dante’s Divine Comedy pt 5: the City of Dis …. (joewalker.blog)

~ O JERUSALEM – Morning Prayer in Lent …. (anchoressonline.com)

~ ODDS AND SODS— Seven new deadly sins: are you guilty? After 1,500 years the Vatican has brought the seven deadly sins up to date by adding seven new ones for the age of globalisation …. (timesonline)

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Thursday, March 6th, A.D. 2007

LENTEN & PASCHAL LINKS ….

~ FELIX HOMINUM— lenten series: Dante’s Divine Comedy pt 4: Inferno VI-VIII …. (felixhominum)

~ SALVATION by Grace and Just Showing Up …. (fatherstephen)

~ LENT IN THE EAST: “Where’s the beef?” …. (insightscoop)

~ THE SECOND Lenten Sermon of Father Cantalamessa …. (zenit.org)

~ THE SUNDAY of the Last Judgment …. (benedictseraphim)

~ ANTI-CHRIST WATCH: He Who Is Not.. by Fulton J. Sheen …. (teaattrianon.blog)

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Tuesday, February 27th, A.D. 2007

LENTEN & PASCHAL LINKS ….

~ LENT IS A TIME to live as witnesses of charity – pope …. (wcr.ab.ca)

~ VENIAL SINS do not add up to a mortal sin, but.. The distinction is useful, even comforting, as it prevents scrupulosity …. (sergesblog.blog)

~ PURE GOLD: 1st Lenten Sermon of Father Cantalamessa …. (zenit.org)

~ ST. HILARY of Poitiers, A Worthy Apostolic Example …. (apostolicity.blog)

~ PERFECT Lenten reading– Print Your Own Catholic Books! …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ FRED SANDERS— Sinning Like Sheep …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ LENTEN STATION CHURCH: San Lorenzo Fuori le Mura by Mountain Butorac. And San Vitale by Mountain Butorac …. (catholicexchange.com)

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Tuesday, February 19th, A.D. 2007

LENTEN & PASCHAL LINKS ….

How’s your Lent going?

~ A VALENTINE Special: the circle of the lustful in Dante’s Inferno!! …. (joewalker.blog)

~ IN THE Father’s House …. (fatherstephen)

~ TIMOTHEOS— “You must be born again” …. (timotheosprologizes.blog)

~ WE SHOULD Not Be Distracted By Anything …. (fatherstephen)

Atonement in the E.R.

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Thursday, February 14th, A.D. 2007

LENTEN & PASCHAL LINKS ….

~ RATZ FAN CLUB ON Lent 2008 …. (ratzingerfanclub)

~ DO LENTEN ASHES ON Ash Wednesday contradict the teaching of Christ on fasting? …. (cantuar.blog)

~ VIA MARK SHEA: Ash Wednesday …. (markshea.blog)

~ ANCHORESS— Lent: “Who told you that you were naked?” …. (anchoressonline)

~ POPE SPEAKS with priests from his diocese about Heaven and Hell …. (freerep)

~ ANCHORESS— 2 More books for Lent? …. (anchoressonline)

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