In one of his insightful analyses of Western Culture the English historian Christopher Dawson made the following observation: This says a lot about our world today and can most especially be seen in the construction of churches today. In the past 50 years there has been a great concern with the functionality or usefulness...
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The ordained priest shares in Christ’s artisan-work of re-crafting the divine image in man in a unique way. By being an alter Christus, he makes Christ, the Head and Bridegroom of the Church, present to the Church herself. He is an icon of Christ’s presence to the very icon of Christ’s presence in the world. He supports...
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Father Schrader speaks about the singular privledge that we, as creatures, have to consume consummate beauty Himself in the Holy Eucharist.
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Baptism confers the common priesthood because it makes one a member of the Church, the sacrament of God’s presence in the world.5 The common priesthood enables and charges the one baptized with the duty to advance the total reconciliation of man to God, already accomplished on the cross but needing to be applied and...
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Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him. And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple robe; they came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. (John 19:1–3) The Lord of hosts, mighty in battle, stood...
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