Unbenownest to many, there is a cloistered comtemplative Benedictine monastery in northeastern Oklahoma. This monastery, a daughterhouse of Fontgombault in France, preserves the Latin liturgy in this little slice of Heaven. I have posted a documentary I made on the monastery. Enjoy!
This post is filed under “Corporis” and aimed at Catholics in good conscience.
It seems it is the standard these days at Holy Mass to receive the Body and Blood of our Lord in the hand during Communion. I urge you to prayerfully consider receiving Holy Communion on the tongue as a norm.
It has been nearly a year since Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger took the name Benedict XVI as pontifex maximus of the Roman Catholic Church. Filling the shoes of a truly great pope, the new Holy Father has a lot to live up to. When the smoke announcing a new pope billowed this past April, I didn’t know what to think. But the local priest seemed exited. Apparently this German cardinal was supposed to be a bulwark of orthodoxy. So how has he done thus far?
This is apparently old news, but I only recently found out about it.
Former Domino’s Pizza owner Tom Monaghan is building a Catholic town in southwest Florida. Ave Maria will be centered around a Catholic university of the same name. Monaghan’s original plan was to build his town on Catholic values by placing stringent rules such as no contraceptives in the pharmacies and no dirty channels from the television stations. He is running into a few bumps, but is still forging ahead with his plans. People are expected to start moving in by 2008
Stigmata are the wounds of Christ from His Passion supernaturally imprinted on a person. The wounds are not solely physically, but the person also bears some of the sufferings of Christ in His Passion. They can be visible (wounds+suffering) or invisible (solely suffering).
Over the years a number of saints have been recorded as bearing the wounds, the first recorded being St. Francis of Assisi in 1224. For a list of saints bearing Stigmata, click here: Stigmata list.