Blog Post by Michael Maher S.J.
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23 April 2024
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter “It was in Antioch that they were first called Christians.” This line from the Acts of the Apostoles ...
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22 April 2024
Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter During the 17th century, a debate broke out within the Catholic community in China concerning the place of ...
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21 April 2024
Fourth Sunday of Easter The study of Church history often reveals that second best was not so bad after all. The recent movie on Francis ...
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17 February 2024
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Saturday afternoon usually finds me doing a bit of cleaning. Last week my investigations under the sofa uncovered ...
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16 February 2024
Friday after Ash Wednesday Fasting has become rather fashionable these days; all sorts of health advocates are speaking to the merits of ...
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15 February 2024
Thursday after Ash Wednesday When Ignatius was studying at the University of Paris, he met a young student by the name of Francis Xavier. ...
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14 February 2024
Ash Wednesday A day of fast and abstinence may not be the most opportune time to celebrate St Valentine’s day. But on the day that celebrates ...
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13 February 2024
Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Berlioz and Tchaikovsky both composed rousing overtures attempting to portray the exuberance and ...
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12 February 2024
Monday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time During the lifetime of Ignatius, the office of bishop, cardinal and particularly papacy, came with ...
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11 February 2024
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time The first reading and the Gospel speak of the issue of leprosy. Now a somewhat rare and curable disease, leprosy ...
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