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Integrity Requires Candor Americas Current Comment Conversion/Covenant (8/13) seems to me to stress unduly the difference between the prayer for conversion of the Jews in the 1962 Missal, and the prayer in the 1970 Missal for the Jewish people, the first to hear the Word of God, that they may contin
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“The one who humbles himself shall be exalted.”
Twenty-Second Sunday of the Year Sir 3 17-18 20 28-29 Heb 12 18-19 22-24 Luke 14 1 7-14 We all care about what other people think of us We want to be respected and to be taken seriously Our reputation is important to us And that s the way it should be On the other hand we would all agre
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Much To Tell Us Having been a lay missionary, I much appreciated the article The New, Lay Face of Missionaries, by Vincent Gragnani (7/30). I would certainly encourage anyone who can to spend some time doing mission work, either in the United States or abroad. While we all hope and try to help the p
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“I have come to set the earth on fire.”
Twentieth Sunday of the Year Later in this Mass we will remember what Jesus told his disciples Peace I leave you my peace I give to you and we will then exchange a greeting of peace But in today s gospel reading Jesus says I have come not to establish peace on the earth I have come for
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Not Countercultural Please excuse my sending this comment more than a month after your publication of William Boles informative article American and Catholic, (7/2) on David OBrien. Professor OBrien takes me as representative of Catholics who style themselves as countercultural. I have not used that
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Through the Fog My thanks and congratulations to Bishop Donald W. Trautman for his excellent article on the new Mass translations being moved forward by the Inter-national Commission on English in the Liturgy (5/21). I must admit that reading it saddened me, because it is yet another indication of t
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“Ask and you shall receive.”
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year Gen 18 20-32 Col 2 12-14 Luke 11 1-13 Today s readings are about the power of prayer In the first reading Abraham pleads with God to spare the people of Sodom and Gomorrah In the gospel passage Jesus urges us to ask his Father for what we need and assures u