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food for faith: foodforfaith - new beginning
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Saturday, December 21, 2013. Foodforfaith - new beginning. Over the last few years this foodforfaith blog has grown far beyond my original intentions and expectations. Several thousand people visit the foodforfaith blogger site every week, and our statistics show that most people spend a good amount of time reading several posts on each visit. Foodforfaith seems to be meeting a need. This section of the site will be updated most regularly and is made up of written entries. Here you can view a selection o...
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food for faith: nativity difficulty
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Earlier today I visited the home of parishioners who had just finished setting up a nativity scene in their living room. It was prepared with love, beautifully created, and was even illuminated with the manger awaiting the Christ child the most brightly lit part of the stable. Soon after the conception of Jesus, Mary and Joseph would have faced considerable pressures and the threat of scandal. Imagine the moment when Mary breaks the news of her pregnancy to her parents A...
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food for faith: celebrating life?
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013. Today a friend posted this blog posting on funerals on his Facebook page. Thanks Pete for sharing this - a very helpful reflection. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New website www.foodforfaith.org.nz. Foodforfaith - new beginning. You did know this. 7 more sleeps - O wisdom. Cohen and Francis in conversation? Save us from the optimists. Time, Francis and Barron. Person of the year. Happy birthday S.C. Trent, 450 years later. The angel of the Lord. The Depth of Life.
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food for faith: advent encouragement
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Saturday, December 7, 2013. This is Pope Francis' first Advent so we have not yet heard much from him about the mission of these pre-Christmas days. This gives us the opportunity to savour some of the Advent reflections of Pope Benedict. This, from the First Vespers of Advent, 2009. The Apostle Paul invites us to prepare for "the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ", with God's grace keeping ourselves blameless. The exact word Paul uses is "coming", in Latin adventus, from which the term "Advent" derives.
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food for faith: Thomas Merton
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Born: 31 January 1915. Died: 10 December 1968. One of the great spiritual classics of the twentieth century is Thomas Merton's Seven Story Mountain. Within minutes of its publication in 1948 it became a best-seller, and one of the books most read by people who were seeking God both within and without the Church through the 1950's and '60's. Following this early spiritual autobiography, Merton went on to share a string of inspirational writings, and a Merton website. Time, Fran...
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food for faith: person of the year
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Thursday, December 12, 2013. Person of the year. This morning TIME magazine. Named Pope Francis as Person of the Year. For 2013. There is no great surprise in this since several pope's have been so named (Pope John Paul II in 1994 and Pope John XXIII in 1962). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New website www.foodforfaith.org.nz. Foodforfaith - new beginning. You did know this. 7 more sleeps - O wisdom. Cohen and Francis in conversation? Save us from the optimists. Time, Francis and Barron.
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food for faith: 7 more sleeps - O wisdom
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013. 7 more sleeps - O wisdom. In the Prayer of the Church. Prayed through the hours of each day by many Christians, and which priests and many Religious communities pray on behalf of all people, the journey of Advent moves up a gear on December 17 when the date appears alongside the day of the week in the Breviary. This marks the last week of preparation for Christmas, with each of these seven days marked with one of the "O antiphons". December 17: "O Wisdom". You did know this.
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food for faith: Time, Francis & Barron
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Friday, December 13, 2013. Time, Francis and Barron. TIME magazine's decision to name Pope Francis as the 2013 person of the year has met with widespread positive response. In this clip Fr Robert Barron offers a helpful reminder: there is no need to build up Pope Francis by turning against previous popes. Yes there is something welcome and timely in the approach of Pope Francis, and there were many of the same positive inspirations and encouragements in other recent popes. Foodforfaith - new beginning.
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food for faith: happy birthday S.C.
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Friday, December 6, 2013. Happy birthday S.C. A friend has just posted a "Happy Birthday Sacrosanctum Concilium" message on Facebook. Fifty years ago this week the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy. The first conciliar constitution and one of the first two documents along with the Decree on Social Communication. Over the past twelve months of the Year of Faith. Then I ask people to name some of the titles or themes of these sixteen documents. Apart from the four Constitutions.
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food for faith: you did know this
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Thursday, December 19, 2013. You did know this. After my post about the Advent "O Antiphons" a couple of days ago. Some have comment that they had never heard about the "O Antiphons". But most Christians know the Advent hymn, "O Come, O Come Emmanuel". And anyone who has sung this hymn has sung the O Antiphons - each of the seven verses, one of the antiphons for the last week of Advent. Oh, come, oh, come, Emmanuel,. And ransom captive Israel,. That mourns in lonely exile here. Until the Son of God appear.
