From the Logos Community Archives In the spirit of the Easter season, and as an aid to believers; I recommend the excellent book by Frank Morison (Albert Henry Ross). Brother Mark April 2014 edited November 2024 According to Amazon.com This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United... Read more
We end Holy week with the end of the Paschal Triduum and move into Easter week. I scrolled through FB this morning only to find this surprising news. We start off Easter Monday April 21 with the death of our beloved pontiff Pope Francis. Someone on Scott Hawn’s FB said… He died well on Easter Monday… he visited the prisoners on Holy Thursday, gave a good homily on Good Friday and his last blessing at Vatican City yesterday. Rest in... Read more
The Easter celebration that oodles of Christians celebrate every year around this time, makes no sense. Unless… The disciples of Christ, His devout followers, make the claim that saw him alive and walking around after he was roughed up by the religious and secular leaders of the land several days before and were giddy, excited, in awe, unnerved, and even scared by this event. Trembling and bewildered, the women said nothing to anyone, because they were afraid. -Mark 16:8 You... Read more
For Your Edification on this Holy Good Friday Here is a passage from What Jesus Saw from the Cross (1930, 1948) by A. G. Sertillanges That book is in the public domain according to Internet Archive. What kind of tree was privileged to provide the wood upon which the world’s most precious fruit should hang? It is not certain. In all probability it was a coniferous tree. A legend fixes a valley to the southwest of the city, belonging to... Read more
In a previous post ‘Mysterious Lives of Christ’, I quoted from LIFE OF CHRIST (1923) by Giovanni Papini That book is in the public domain. Wine and Blood As soon as they had eaten the lamb with the bread and the bitter herb, Jesus filled the common cup for the third time and gave it to the Apostle nearest Him, “Drink ye all of it; for this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.” His... Read more
Millions of Christians around continue their metaphysical journey to Calvary having traveled from Palm Sunday to Spy Wednesday. Today we enter into the Holy Triduum which is the is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday, reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil. It actually closes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday which will be covered in the post on Easter Week As Christians take time in this jubilee year to reflect on... Read more
Millions of Christians around the world will begin the final leg of their metaphysical journey to Calvary this week starting with the liturgical celebration of Passion or Palm Sunday. In this post we travel to Holy or Spy Wednesday. As Christians take time in this jubilee year to reflect on the core of our faith millions of others will not. They won’t go to church services or think deeply about Jesus’s passion. They will continue to release movies, books and... Read more
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and founding member of the Confessing Church. 80 years ago he was executed in Flossenbürg concentration camp by hanging at dawn on April 9, 1945, (source Wikipedia) On the anniversary of his death here are some of his thoughts on the Christian life that is perfect for Lent or anytime of the year. Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most... Read more
“So this is how I’m going to die.” These are the words my wife, Kristin Wilson, thought as she was choking on her salad. She hadn’t chewed it correctly and it was lodged in her throat. She couldn’t swallow and she couldn’t cough it up. She couldn’t breath and was starting to feel lightheaded. That is when the thought came to her, “This is how I’m going to die.” And now I am to die. – Daniel 13: 43 She... Read more
In a previous post ‘Mysterious Lives of Christ’, I quoted from LIFE OF CHRIST (1923) by Giovanni Papini That book is in the public domain. Here is another passage from this book that you can freely download, and copy, and reuse and do whatever you want with, without restriction as it is once again in the public domain. That is the joy of the public domain and there are lots of good Catholic books forgotten about for years that you... Read more
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