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The Spirit Who Embraces Both East and West, Part 4
The Procession of the Spirit Means God is Love Some people have the notion that all this sort of thing is just cold theological abstraction
The Spirit Who Embraces Both East and West, Part 3
Practical Mysticism and the Paraclete This matters to us as more than a mere abstract question for reasons similar to those involving the atonement in
The Spirit Who Embraces Both East and West, Part 2
Breathe in me, O Holy Spirit,That my thoughts may all be holy.Act in me, O Holy Spirit,That my work, too, may be holy.Draw my heart,
The Spirit Who Embraces Both East and West, Part 1
Over on the Book of Face, I noted this story with a prayer that Jesus’ prayer for the unity of the Church would be answered:
Dive into the Sheavings
Honoring our Fathers and Mothers
When God commands something, it’s usually because we need to be reminded that the thing commanded is a good thing, despite the momentary testimony of our circumstances. Hence, he commands us to worship him and have no gods before him, precisely because life is constantly presenting us with alternative objects
What I Learned on a Walk
Pretty much every day that it’s not raining I am, at some point, summoned “owside” as my two year old Sean says and bidden to take his and my three year old, Peter’s, hands and get going. It doesn’t really matter where we go as long as we see certain
The Works of Mercy: Harbor the Harborless
One of the most exasperating bits of exegetical trendiness to afflict First World Catholics for the past thirty years or so has been the endless recirculation, like a bad penny, of the True Meaning of the Miracles of the Loaves and Fishes homily. It goes like this: Jesus found himself
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About Mark Shea
Greetings! I’m Mark P. Shea, a Catholic author and blogger who’s also done a spot of podcasting and even acting here and there, as well as radio and TV work. My latest book, The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching was published in September 2020 by New City Press. Other works include By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (Ignatius), Mary, Mother of the Son, This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence (Christendom), and Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (Basilica), Salt and Light: The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (Servant), The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary (Our Sunday Visitor) and The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (Servant).
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