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Holidays & Festivals (All Traditions)
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Creation, the People of Israel and the Torah
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The green Chasuble: Symbolism and liturgical use during ordinary time
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Funerals are the only aspect of Catholic life I engage with any more
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Love in the time of acedia
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Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time: What do we choose to ‘wear’ when we go into the world?
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (480+ words) Sunday Scripture readings for Oct. 11, 2026, the Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 25:6-10a Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 Phil 4:12-14, 19-20 Mt 22:1-14 The parable we hear this Sunday is one of the most challenging in the Gospels — about an extravagantly generous king who throws a large wedding…...
Torah Portion: B’ray’sheet
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (1490+ words) Or if you prefer — Bang! In the beginning God creates the heavens — the universe — something very, very, very big. And the earth — something very, very, very small in relationship to the universe. Thus, immediately establishing that this world is something…...
The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (164+ words) Released August 2010 (Hyperion CDA67770) A varied collection of music one might hear if visiting the Abbey on its patronal feast - that of St Peter the Apostle on 29th June. Duruflé Tu es Petrus (Quatre motets sur des thèmes grégoriens) Radcliffe Preces and…...