Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 17th, 2009
This World Is Not My Home
This World Is Not My Home Homily, St. Peters’ Seward, 8/16/09, Proper 15, Year B, RCL, the Sunday closest to August 17. Readings: 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Psalm 111 (or Proverbs 9:1-6, Psalm 34:9-14) Ephesians 5: 15-20 John 6:51-58 Let us pray: Lord Jesus Christ, by your death you took away the sting of death: […]
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Paryushana - Parva / Samvatsari [Jainism]
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Samuel Johnson, 1772, Timothy Cutler, 1765, and Thomas Bradbury Chandler, 1790, Priests
Next only to William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers. The latter part of the eighteenth century is often (in English-speaking countries, of course) called, simply, the Age of Johnson. Johnson was born in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, in 1709. His mother did not have enough milk for him, and so […]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
St. Arnoul or Arnulphus, confessor and bishop of Soissons,1087
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Alipius, bishop
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
On This Day
RELIGIOUS HISTORY 1096 The armies of the First Crusade set out from Europe to deliver Jerusalem from the occupying forces of Islamic Turks. Championed by Peter the Hermit in 1093, Pope Urban II had sanctioned the crusade at the Council of Clermont in 1095. 1534 The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius of […]
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Saint Mary the Virgin, Mother of Our Lord Jesus Christ
THE VIRGIN MARY MOTHER OF OUR LORD (15 AUGUST NT) The honor paid to Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, goes back to the earliest days of the Church. Indeed, it goes back further, for even before the birth of her Son, Mary prophesied, “From this time forth, all generations […]