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Clad in a rose-red tunic and crowned with laurel, the poet Dante Alighieri sits on a rock before a vast landscape gazing over his shoulder to the steep seven-story mountain of purgatory with the verdant earthly paradise at its peak. A tiny boat ferries the souls of the saved across the blue water to begin their penitential ascent.
Precious Blood Church sits in the center of the town surrounded by 58 Protestant churches. We make our mark in the Christian community as a vibrant, singing parish. The Spanish-speaking community has two choirs and a charismatic praise and worship group; the English-speaking community has four choirs, including a teen group that serves once a month. For special liturgies, such as Holy Thursday, Easter Vigil, Pentecost vigil, and for the sacraments of first Eucharist and confirmation, our music director, Hannah Masson, pulls together a bilingual choir.
There’s nothing quite like a once-in-a-century pandemic to prompt re-examination — and that’s what many diocesan Catholics have done, according to retirement and estate planning experts in the area who’ve seen a surge in activity since COVID-19. Clients increasingly are refocusing priorities and raising new questions ranging from estate planning to Catholic-based retirement savings to advanced medical directives, or living wills.
I had a conversation in the car with my girls the other day. We tried to come up with our own words to define holiness. It’s an interesting exercise in really drilling down on a fundamental understanding of why we’re here. We’re here to become holy, aren’t we? We’re here to spend a lifetime — however long that is — knowing God better and becoming more like him.
NEW YORK — Before the advent of television and the later rise of home video, Hollywood tended to regard films as ephemeral products whose moneymaking potential was essentially limited to their initial run in theaters. This attitude meant that studios were sometimes negligent when it came to maintaining their copyright over a past picture.
It’s hard to imagine that anyone who ever raised children found it an entirely easy job. Challenging, exciting, often rewarding — yes. But easy? You’ve got to be kidding.
PREŠOV, Slovakia — Falling into the temptation of rejecting the cross and choosing a triumphalist form of Christianity leads to a faith that is superficial and sterile, Pope Francis said.
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — The violence of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed against the Jewish people are tantamount to blasphemy, Pope Francis said.
Parishes across the Arlington diocese commemorate the terrorist attacks Sept. 11-12
Revolution vs. love
One of the most popular conceptions of the so-called historical Christ current in the secular world is the portrait of Christ the Revolutionary. The modern West, bound up in its own sensitivities and obsessions, seeks a Jesus beyond the Christ of the church’s faith and so often makes of him either a harmless wandering rabbi who merely teaches universal moral law, or a reforming firebrand and thorn in the side of all establishment, political, and religious alike.