Ruminations of an Amateur Monastic
Were it not Sunday, today we would be celebrating the Memorial of Saint Francis of Assisi. In fact, today is the 800th anniversary of his death, and the Franciscan Friars and Sisters around the world are celebrating this great jubilee. Just about everybody knows Saint Francis. He’s the plaster birdbath guy, right? The saint who hung around with fuzzy pastel […]
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Happy Feast of All Saints! This is the day when we celebrate all the saints, known and unknown: the Church Triumphant. We ask them to pray for us. I, for one, could use all the help I can get! This day has been a feast since the sixth or seventh century, thanks to the abbots of Cluny, and it was […]
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Today, the Octave day of the Assumption, is the Memorial of Our Lady Queen of Heaven. May you have all the joy of the feast! On this day, Pope Leo XIV has requested that today be a day of prayer and fasting for peace. While our world continues to be wounded by wars in the Holy Land, in Ukraine and […]
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Today the Cardinal Electors, guided by the Holy Spirit, elected Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost to the Chair of Saint Peter. He has chosen the name of Leo XIV, perhaps in homage to Pope Leo the Great, or perhaps to Pope Leo XIII, author of Rerum Novarum. Francine and I watched from her hospital room. Although quite ill, she was very […]
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