This Christmas, let's keep the "Mass" in Christmas...and Christ will reign supreme!
An excellent time of the year to catechize why this celebration is named after the central act of worship in the Catholic Church...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006
Saturday, November 25, 2006
"Nativity" Premiere at Vatican, Pope will Not Attend
Neither will pregnant sixteen year old actress who plays Mary in the movie ...
From the Times Online:
From the Times Online:
The plot of The Nativity Story is familiar enough. But the parallels between the lives of the Virgin Mary and the teenage actress who plays her in the first feature film to be premiered at the Vatican are causing controversy.
The Pope, upon whose doorstep the first showing takes place on Sunday, will not be attending. Nor will Keisha Castle-Hughes, the 16-year-old unmarried actress who plays Mary and who is expecting her first child in the spring.
Castle-Hughes, who said she was “thrilled” to be pregnant”, said she had made the film “in a state of grace”. Playing Mary, a “sweet, strong and courageous” figure, had been “a source of spiritual richness”.
A Vatican spokesman said yesterday that the Pope “never was going to attend. The surprise would have been if he had.” His decision had nothing to do with the film. He is 79 and preparing for a visit to Turkey on Tuesday.
Wisdom on Praying from Evagrius
From Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: A Patristic Breviary : Ancient Wisdom for Today's World (Cistercian Studies, No 148)
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:- Pray that the Lord may soften the hardness of your soul.
- Pray that the Lord may forgive the sins you confess to him.
- Don't pray that what you want may come to pass. It does not necessarily coincide with the will of God.
- Pray rather as you have been taught, saying "Your will be done in me!"
- Pray that the will of God may be done in everything. He, in fact, wants what is good and useful for your soul, while you are not always seeking that and only that.
Pope May Visit Mosque in Turkey
The "Blue" Mosque is in the same neigborhood as the Hagia Sophia. I've been there a couple of times--you have to leave your shoes in the courtyard, but someone will probably carry the pope's shoes, don't you think? You also make ablutions at the fountain before entering--similar (but not the same) to Catholics blessing themselves with holy water when entering a church-actually the priest washing his hands may be a more apt metaphor to what one does when entering a Mosque.
From Reuters UK:
From Reuters UK:
Pope Benedict, who drew fire from Muslims over his comments on Islam, is likely to make a hastily added stop at Istanbul's Blue Mosque on his trip to Turkey next week, the Vatican said on Saturday.
It would be his first visit to a mosque. His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, made the first visit by a pontiff to a mosque during a trip to Damascus in 2001.
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