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St. Monica
For those of you who haven’t read the Confessions of St. Augustine, St. Monica, is remembered as the gracious doctor’s mother. She prayed for Augustine for over seventeen years, that he would be...
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Reforming Advent: 'Kris Kringle'
For students of history a fundamental law of the discipline seems to be that history is simply doomed to repeat itself. As we’ve looked at Advent traditions throughout the previous posts we’ve gone...
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Parish Ale: Beer in Church, a Lengthy Tradition
In the middle ages (and in some places even until now) the parish was the centre of community life. There would be dances and celebrations in the church, as well as meetings of almost every kind....
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Today the Latin / Western Church commemorates St. Augustine of Hippo. One great ecclesiastical historian around here has called him the grandfather of the Western Church. Jaroslav Pelikan said that...
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Feast of St. Cyprian
In honor of Saint Cyprian’s feast day tomorrow I was reading some of his epistles and found an interesting paragraph where the bishop writes about the Eucharist and Justification by faith. Curiously,...
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