Thought for the Day – 17 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Cave of Bethlehem “Why, asked Bossuet, should the Eternal Word of God, infinitely and everlastingly happy, have deigned to assume in time, the fallen state of humanity?Why should He have chosen, as the scene of His miraculous life of love, […]
Thought for the Day – 17 December – The Cave of Bethlehem — AnaStpaul
Saint of the Day – 16 December – Saint Ado of Vienne (Died 875) Archbishop of Vienne from 850 until his death, Writer, Reformer – Born in Sens, France and died in 875 in Vienne, France of natural causes. Also known as Adon, Adonis. Several of his letters are extant and reveal their writer as […]
Saint of the Day – 16 December – Saint Ado of Vienne (Died 875) — AnaStpaul
Mattana, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Today is the first Sunday in Advent. Advent does not, as I’ve read in more than one place, begin on the last Sunday in November. Mostly it does, but occasionally it begins on the first Sunday in December. The crucial thing is that Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas. […]
Medieval Advent — A Writer’s Perspective
The Nativity – Greg Olsen By Charlie Johnston The first Advent occupied hundreds of years as a groaning world awaited the appearance of the Messiah. When He came in a manger, few noticed it at all. When He began His ministry, the ruling class rejected Him as a dangerous fraud. Even those who believed in […]
Our New Advent — A Sign of Hope
The Epistle of Jeremiah 1 A copy of an epistle, which Jeremiah sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians, to certify them, as it was commanded him of God. 2 Because of the sins which ye have committed before God, ye shall be…
The Epistle of Jeremiah — The Unexpected Cosmology
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