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 »
Exultet
Posted in Easter, Jesus, Liturgy, The Incarnation on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rejoice, heavenly powers! Sing, choirs of angels!
Exult, all creation around God’s throne!
Jesus Christ, our King, is risen!
Sound the trumpet of salvation!
Rejoice, O earth, in shining splendor,
radiant in the brightness of your King!
Christ has conquered! Glory fills you!
Darkness vanishes for ever!
Rejoice, O Mother Church! Exult in glory!
The risen Savior shines upon you!
Let this place resound with [...]
Humanity
Posted in Jesus, Secular Humanism, The Incarnation, The Passion on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
F. J. Sheed on God’s Love as Revealed Through Christ
Posted in Jesus, The Incarnation on January 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Theology and Sanity, first published in 1946 and revised in 1978:
[The Apostles] knew Christ before they knew He was God. Had they known from the beginning, they might simply have feared Him, and fear would have made a bar to any progress in intimacy. But by the time they knew beyond the possibility of [...]
The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Posted in Mary and the Saints, The Incarnation on January 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mary the Dawn, Christ the Perfect Day;
Mary the Gate, Christ the Heav’nly Way!
Mary the Root, Christ the Mystic Vine;
Mary the Grape, Christ the Sacred Wine!
Mary the Wheat-sheaf, Christ the Living Bread;
Mary the Rose-tree, Christ the Rose blood-red!
Mary the Font, Christ the Cleansing Flood;
Mary the Chalice, Christ the Saving Blood!
Mary the Temple, Christ the Temple’s Lord;
Mary [...]
Gloria Tibi Domine / Qui Natus es de Virgine!
Posted in Jesus, The Incarnation on December 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A litel childe there is ibore
Ispronge out of Jesses more
To save alle us that were forlore
Gloria tibi domine
Jhesus that is so fulle of might
Ibore he was aboute midnight
The angel songe with alle here might
Gloria tibi domine
Jhesus is that childes name
Maide and moder is his dame
And so oure sorow is turned to game
Gloria tibi domine
Three kinges [...]
