Prayer and Spiritual Reading That Help Crucify Your Passions During Lent
Together, they help us to turn away from sin and the world and turn instead toward Jesus Christ and heaven.
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Author: Rev. Kevin Bezner
The “Publicans Prayer Book”: A Byzantine School of Prayer for “Spiritual Publicans”
The Publicans Prayer Book now bears the distinction of being the most comprehensive Byzantine book for personal prayer available.
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“Sacred Georgian Chants” from Nana Peradze and the Georgian Harmony Choir
I have heard no other recording of chant—Byzantine, Gregorian, or Russian—that is more prayerful or contemplative
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During Lent, Imagine Yourself Crucified Beside Our Lord
Our morning prayer reminds us that our fasting from food is worthless if we do not spend more time fighting against our passions.
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How Byzantines Prepare to Receive the Awesome Mysteries of Christ
Preparation for Holy Communion should occur every day of a Catholic or Orthodox Christian’s life.
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A Ukrainian Catholic Deacon in Mission Country — Bringing the Faith to One Person, One Family at a Time
Like the priests and deacons in Ukraine, my purpose in mission country is to plant seeds and nurture faith. My purpose is to put down the roots of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the soil of new territory, one person and one family at a time.
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Pope Francis’s Suggested Change of the Lord’s Prayer Could Harm the Faithful
The problem is not that the phrase is confusing, as the pope suggests. The problem is with the inclination today to make everything easy for the lazy.
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A New Translation of “Beowulf” Challenges Its Christian Meaning
Stephen Mitchell is a gifted translator, and his translation of Beowulf in verse is meticulous, lucid, musical, and most readable, but is a poor guide to its meaning.
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Starting Out the New Year in the Desert with Our Lord
So in examining ourselves, we must consider the ways we have sought to seek worldly glory and win the approval of others, and we must be rigorous if we are to have any success at this.
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A History of America’s “Ugly Secret” — A History of Catholicism in the Thirteen Colonies
The book, Pioneer Priests and Makeshift Altars. is the story of those who helped make the United States the standard bearer for religious liberty for the world
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