CATHOLIC NEWS: Holy Saturday... PLUS 8 MORE

CATHOLIC NEWS: Holy Saturday... PLUS 8 MORE

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Holy Saturday

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:00 AM PDT

From the Office of Readings for Holy Saturday: Something strange is happening—there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began.

The Death of Pope John Paul II: A View from the Square

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 09:52 AM PDT

"He was as alone as a man can be," the Polish journalist Jerzy Turowicz remarked of John Paul II at the moment of his election. At his death on April 2, 2005, between the thousands packed into St. Peter's Square, and the group of doctors, nuns, priests, and bishops in his bedroom...

The term "Mormon" is back in vogue among Mormons

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 08:12 AM PDT

I have studied Mormon theology and history for nearly 25 years now (yes, I know that's a very uncommon hobby for a Catholic), during which time I've seen a marked shift in the attitudes of many Mormons toward the moniker "Mormon." While it was for many decades a generally accepted name for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (A.

Birds of a Feather

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:27 AM PDT

Ruth Gledhill of The Times in London seems to be vying with Maureen Dowd for the 'Dumb Attacks on the Catholic Church' award. In this article she leapfrogs from Archbishop Rowan Williams snide comments about the Catholic Church to the sermon by Fr Raniero Cantalamessa quoting a Jewish friend who recognized elements of the persecution in the present campaign against the Catholic Church that...

Fr. Cantalamessa's sermon for Good Friday in the Vatican Basilica

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 05:26 PM PDT

Here is the text in English of Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa's sermon for Good Friday in the Vatican Basilica. My emphases and comments : "WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST " Homily on Good Friday 2010 in Saint Peter's Basilica "We have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus...

"The Immense Lesson of Love"

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 07:02 AM PDT

Here below, a house translation of B16's closing remarks from this Good Friday night's traditional Via Crucis at Rome's Colosseum: Dear brothers and sisters, In prayer, with a collected and moved spirit, we've traveled this night the way of the Cross. With Jesus we've ascended Calvary and meditated on his suffering...

Why there is no Mass on Good Friday

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 06:09 AM PDT

Many people are wondering today: Why is there no Mass on Good Friday? Of course, there is the Liturgy of the Presanctified, or the Commemoration of Our Lord's Passion; but it is true that, although communion is distributed, Mass is not celebrated. So, why no Mass today (or Holy Saturday, before the Vigil)?

I've Never Read a Better Meditation on Good Friday Than This

Posted: 01 Apr 2010 10:00 PM PDT

By Mark Shea | So I will defer to GKC today: In this story of Good Friday it is the best things in the world that are at their worst. That is what really shows us the world at its worst. It was, for instance, the priests of a true monotheism and the soldiers of an international civilisation. Rome, the legend...

Why I Remain Catholic

Posted: 02 Apr 2010 11:03 AM PDT

The question has come my way several times in the past week: "How do you maintain your faith in light of news stories that bring light to the dark places that exist within your church?" When have darkness and light been anything but co-existent? How do we recognize either without the other?