Blogger and fellow Bay Area resident Arturo Vasquez has just published an article in Catholic Exchange. Titled “God in a Broken Frame and Shattered Glass: Another Look at Sacred Imagery” and taking as its starting point the recent vandalization of a local parish, the essay is a meditation on the ways in which images draw [...]
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God in a Broken Frame and Shattered Glass
Posted in Catholic Devotion, News, The Incarnation on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Devotion to Saints and Angels (3)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Mary and the Saints on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
4. Catholics, however, it is said, do much more than this; not only do they ask the saints and angels to pray for them, but also to give them this or that temporal or spiritual blessing, to help or defend them; in a word, to interfere actively in their behalf, as though they were themselves [...]
Devotion to Saints and Angels (2)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Mary and the Saints on November 10, 2007 | 1 Comment »
2. But this will appear still more clearly from the passages which will be quotes in answer to the second and most popular objection, namely, that even though the saints and angels may pray generally for all Christian people, for the whole estate of Christ’s Church upon earth, yet they know nothing of the wants [...]
Devotion to Saints and Angels (1)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Mary and the Saints on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Devotion to saints and angels is a part of the Catholic religion, from which Protestants shrink with horror, and which they loudly denounce as superstitious and unscriptural. Now if they used this word “unscriptural” only in the sense of “not to be found in holy scripture,” it would scarcely fall within the scope of our [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (3)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on November 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
But Protestants will say perhaps that they also meditate, and that it is an easy thing to do so, especially for gentle and thoughtful minds, and at particular times when they are in a humour for it. This, however, is mere natural meditation; meditation as the Church would have it is a very different thing. [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (2)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Consider again, what is the one great act of Catholic worship, which surpasses all others in dignity, and in the frequency of its celebration, and in which all Catholics are bound to join, at least on Sundays and great festivals, on pain of mortal sin. It is the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Protestants, rejecting [...]
The Religion of Catholics the Worship of Jesus (1)
Posted in Apologetics, Catholic Devotion, Jesus, Mary and the Saints, The Real Presence on October 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Among other strange ideas entertained by Protestants respecting the religion of Catholics, there is a very general belief that we have well nigh given up the worship of our Blessed Lord. The idolatrous worship of saints and angels and “graven images” is supposed to have long since taken its place; trust in our own merits [...]
