2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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Details, from the Virginian-Pilot: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond has told the nation’s only blended Catholic and Episcopal parish it must change its worship services so Catholics and non-Catholics meet in separate rooms for Holy Communion. The parish, Church of the Holy Apostles, is led by Catholic and Episcopal co-pastors and has worshipped together for more than 30 years. It’s an arrangement, parishioners say, that over the years has allowed families in mixed marriages to worship side by side... Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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Soon and very soon.  Like tomorrow, in fact. As a little warmup to tomorrow’s feast, here’s an award-winning gospel choir doing a rockin’ version of a favorite hymn for this feast: “Soon and Very Soon (We Are Going to See the King)”.  Can I hear an “Amen”? Read more

2012-11-24T08:04:59-05:00

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[Click here for readings.] This Sunday, on the Solemnity of Christ the King, I was preparing to preach about how royalty is really alien to us Americans, how the concept of a King is something foreign to our sensibilities. But an experience Friday proved me wrong. I made the mistake of going to the mall with my wife on Friday. We were in Maryland, visiting family, and decided to stop by a nearby Sears. My wife had one thing she... Read more

2012-11-24T07:45:33-05:00

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I first posted on this historically large class a couple weeks back.  Now, Arkansas Catholic’s Facebook page has posted the first post-ordination picture, below. Congratulations and welcome!  Ad multos annos! Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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Bob Keeler in Long Island’s Newsday writes about an unusual deacon-and-wife combo: There is the average ghostwriter, and then there is Patty Buchenberger. Call her the Holy Ghost Writer. For two decades, from her husband Tom’s 1981 ordination as a permanent deacon in the Catholic Church until vocal cord cancer put an end to his ability to preach, Patty was the poetry to his prose. “It was an absolute team effort,” Patty said. First, he would study the Scripture readings... Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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An interesting take From Tom Sutcliffe, writing at an Anglican website:  The truth is that, in July with Clause 5.1.c as then proposed, the Measure stood a chance of being accepted by those most adversely affected by it and I might have voted for it then. But after that clause was watered down and talked merely of respect – a word which is no reassurance at all to anybody who has been attending to developments in The Episcopal Church on... Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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Some insight on prayer from author and professor Susan Stabile, and I can’t help but think some of her ideas here would not be unfamiliar to Thomas Merton: Becoming a Tibetan Buddhist nun is not a typical life choice for a child of an Italian Catholic police officer from Brooklyn, New York. Nevertheless, in February of 1988 I knelt in front of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India, as he cut a few locks of my hair (the rest had... Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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So says a leading lay Catholic in Scotland. Details:  A leading Scots lay Catholic has claimed the music sung in churches is “lousy” and is the reason why young people have stopped going to Mass. Joan Dillon, a Masters graduate of RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland), also claimed music at Mass was “more rooted in pop music than in sacred traditions” and was often “so bad it distracted people from the true purpose of worship”. She said 25... Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:05-04:00

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The classic final scene from the “Cheers” Thanksgiving show, in which Norm’s wife Vera finally makes an appearance! Read more

2016-09-30T17:02:06-04:00

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I can’t believe this first aired nearly 20 years ago.  Below, a clip of Johnny Cash and his wife June Carter Cash, making a rare TV drama appearance on “Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.”  It was the Thanksgiving episode, so of course it included a Thanksgiving song.  Enjoy. Lyrics: We’ve come to the time in the season When family and friends gather near To offer a prayer of Thanksgiving For blessings we’ve known through the year To join hands and thank... Read more

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