Almighty God, our heavenly Father, let thy protection be upon all those who are in the service of our country; guard them from all harm and danger of body and soul; sustain and comfort those as home, especially in their hours of loneliness, anxiety, and sorrow; prepare the dying for death and the living for your service; give success to our arms on land and sea and in the air; and grant unto us and all nations a speedy, just and lasting peace. Amen.
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Holy Week 2006 - Regular updates of papal homilies and happenings from the Vatican.
Way of the Cross 2006 Led by Pope Benedict XVI, with Meditations and prayers by Archbishop Angelo Comastri, Vicar General of His Holiness for Vatican City.
As I reflect on both popular misconceptions and mistakes made in my own (very average) spiritual life, though, I think that it might be a good thing to reflect on what asceticism is not. . . .
Stations of the Cross, selections from St. John Chrysostom, with bronze stations of the cross cast by Max DeMoss for the Church of the Nativity, Rancho Santa Fe, California, and were photographed there on February 26, 2006. Beautiful!
No Other Name -- beginning with an excerpt from Fr. Richard J. Neuhaus' Death on a Friday Afternoon, Stephen Riddle (Flos Carmeli) reflects on the truth of God's revelation in Jesus Christ, and what it means for us. (Thank you for this, Stephen).
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