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Presentation of the Lord Xmas Closure
The Fourth Mystery of the Holy Rosary.
The Mosaic Law prescribed not only the offering up of the first-born male, but also the purification of the mother. Mary was not obliged by this law since she was most pure, having conceived of the Son in a miraculous manner. Yet Our Lady never sought to get out of social obligations. As Saint Bernard has written: Don't you think that Our Lady could have complained and said, 'What need have I of purification? Why should the authorities block my entrance into the temple when my womb has been turned into the temple of the Holy Spirit? Why can't I go into the temple when I have brought to life the Lord of the temple? There has been nothing impure, nothing illicit, nothing to purify in this conception and this birth. This Child is the source of all purity. He has come to purify us from our sins. What then is there to purify in me when he has made me most pure in this immaculate birth? (St Bernard, Homily on the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Man; III, 2)
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Xmas Video Message
Our parish is going to offer a Mass for the Bishop, and a Holy Hour is going to be offered for the intentions of the Holy Father and our Bishop. Please come and offer your prayers!
06.01.2012. 22:50
St. Bonavneture: On the Circumcision, and Weeping of the Lord
"MADE UNDER THE LAW."
The Child was circumcised on the eighth day. Two great mysteries were wrought on that day. One was the revelation of the Name of salvation, which had been given Him from all eternity, and by which the angel had said He should be called, before He was conceived in the womb — that Name this day was declared and made known. And they called His name Jesus; but Jesus means Saviour, "which Name is above every name." (Phil. 2:9) Nor is there, as the Apostle Peter says, any "other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." (Acts 4:12)
Continue reading 01.01.2012. 15:23
Hail Mary in Algiers
The Rosary In Battle
The wife of an eminent French officer of rank, who in his capacity of commander of an advanced frontier post in Algiers was more than one hundred times exposed to a soldier's death on the battle-field, mentioned the following incidental circumstances in a private conversation:
Continue reading 01.01.2012. 09:05
The New-Years Gift
fragment from Thomas Becon
I will rehearse another text of St Paul to the Hebrews, and make an end of this matter: "He was tempted and made like to us in all things, sin alone except." If he were like unto us in all things, sin alone except, then follows it that he had a body of flesh as we have, and that there was no difference, but that his most blessed body was without all sin, and our bodies are sinful. For he was born, wrapped in cloths, laid in a manger, fed, circumcised, embraced in arms, grew, was made strong in the spirit, profited in wisdom and age, hungered, thirsted, wept, was weary, rejoiced, was moved with wrath and indignation, sorrowed, was heavy, sad, and at the last suffered the most spiteful death of the cross. Are not these very signs and manifest tokens of man?
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