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Christendom and the Need for Something New
Christendom is a term that means different things to different people, so it will be important that we define it for our purposes and for the purposes of understanding Monsignor Shea’s message. Let’s consider world history from a very high perspective. In the ancient world, there were many dominant civilizations tied to pagan religions. The… Continue reading
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From Christendom to Apostolic Mission
Monsignor James Shea Monsignor Shea is the president of the University of Mary, in Bismarck, ND, and he is the driving force behind the two books that constitute the text for this series on Sunday mornings that will take us to the end of the calendar year. Monsignor Shea was ordained in 2002, and he… Continue reading
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The Blessed Life in Christ
The gospel this morning is taken from the sixth chapter of Luke, and it is a continuation of Jesus’ preaching on the Beatitudes. We get the word Beatitudes from the scriptures because Jesus makes a number of statements in which he starts with the words, “Blessed are you if…” St. Thomas Aquinas explains beatitude this… Continue reading
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Theology of the Body
Many thanks to Deacon Jim and Stephanie for a compelling look at an important teaching given to us by St. John Paul II, one of the greatest popes of the 20th century. Week One – Introduction and Setting the Stage Week Two – Man Before the Fall Week Three – The Fall and Its Effects Continue reading
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The Body of Christ
The readings today give us an opportunity to think about the Church: to think about what it is, how it works, and what it does. The Church is the mystical body of Christ, as St. Paul explains to the community in Corinth. From the Creed we profess as Mass, we know the Church is the… Continue reading
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An Ordinary Holy Family
God comes into the world as one of us on Christmas day, which we just celebrated. Technically, we are still celebrating Christmas Day, as we are in the Octave of Christmas, in which we celebrate for eight days the major feast day. In the modern Church calendar, only the Octave of Easter ranks higher. This… Continue reading
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The O Antiphons
December 17 – O Sapientia O Wisdom, which camest out of the mouth of the most High, and reachest from one end to another, mightily, and sweetly ordering all things: come and teach us the way of prudence. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of… Continue reading
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Advent: Two Comings
What’s Coming and Why Advent is for Christians the beginning of a new year, and for us here in Georgia and everywhere in the northern hemisphere, Advent arrives as the days are getting shorter and shorter down to the point that when we’re right at the end of Advent, we have the shortest day of… Continue reading
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Christ Our King
The feast of Christ the King was added to the church calendar in 1925 by Pope Pius XI. The Pope explained that while everyone agrees that Christ is King and he reigns in the hearts of men, he also reigns in reality and has the title and the power of King as a man because… Continue reading
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Modern Heresies
Deism God is an impersonal force of origin, and he does not intervene in history. Rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge. Contemporary religions are corruptions of a single pure, natural, simple, and rational religion. (Very connected to Freemasonry; many American Founders were Deists.) Enlightenment Rationality A human-centered philosophy and moral system in which… Continue reading
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