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Becoming Fully Human
Today I ran across another blogger’s words that I felt were worth passing along to the readers of this blog. One of my primary goals in this life is to become more and more human. Problem is, I fail to live up to what it means to be truly human again and again. Christ gave us the perfect example of what it means to be human, but it usually takes those of us who follow Him a lifetime to even come close to looking like the one who created us. One of my common mistakes is thinking I can do it through my own efforts, without His help .
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Advent Conspiracy 2009
Yesterday the St. Thomas team of co-conspirators unveiled our idea of preparing for Christmas through a fourfold plan:
Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More and Love All.
Are you ready to enter the story?
Sabbath Sunday: Saint Monica
Wow! Here we are at Sunday again! Where did the week go? It makes me look forward to a Sunday of prayer and rest and has me hoping for a couple of days to relax this coming holiday week. This edition of Sabbath Sunday gives me the opportunity to share one of my favorite early blogposts about St. Monica and my own mom. It is entitled St
The Eucharistic Prayer: Offering
The next part of the Eucharistic Prayer is called the offering. One of the things I like about the liturgy is that there is a continual exchange between God and his people. We give Him thanks for all he has given and offer these gifts back to Him for blessing. He sends the Holy Spirit to change these gifts into the Body and Blood of Christ. We offer them back to Him. The GIRM describes this part of the liturgy in these words,
Offering: By which, in this very memorial, the Church–and in parti
The Eucharist Prayer: Anamnesis
The Eucharistic Prayer continues following the Institution Narrative and Consecration with the Anamnesis. The General Instruction to the Roman Missal describes this part of the prayer in these words:
Anamnesis: In which the Church, fulfilling the command that she received from Christ the Lord through the Apostles, keeps the memorial of Christ, recalling especially his blessed Passion, glorious Resurrection, and Ascension into heaven.
In the Ro
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