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NCR: "Sticking with an imperfect fit: We may shop for churches, but stability makes community possible" - Freder1ck

The teachings of the Church exist precisely in order to safeguard this encounter, and that this encounter may spread and grow. - Freder1ck

My dog saw the rabbit! - Freder1ck

Catholic Actress Farrah Fawcett Dies - NatCatReg - Freder1ck

"The sky will turn to white / Quite soon and there will be another dawn" - Freder1ck

If going to Jesus through Mary strikes a Protestant as idolotrous, then going to Mary through Jesus would sound absurd, impractical, and pointless... as has been pointed out to me on more than one occasion online. - Freder1ck

"Many things the Catholic Church proposes are challenging to understand. There are several ways of communicating these things to the world." - Freder1ck

Joan of Arc on the upper park at Meridian Hill (Malcolm X) Park Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc (1412–30 May 1431) is a national heroine of France and a saint of the Catholic Church. She stated that she had visions, which she believed came from God, and she used these to inspire Charles VII's troops to retake most of his dynasty's former territories which had been under English and Burgundian dominance during the Hundred Years' War. - Catholic Meme from Bookmarklet

I lived 2 blocks away from this park. When I returned to the park a few years ago, I was pleased to see the statue and park had been cleaned up. In the lower part of the park, there's a statue of Dante, in whose shadow I read the Purgatorio. - Freder1ck

Great shots! - Kol Tregaskes

Love the 1st shot - Bindu Reddy

"The true stumbling block is that few appreciate what education is, what a teacher is..." - Freder1ck

"The Holy Father understands the priority of culture and how human culture, especially high culture, is not really possible without religion and necessary link between Christianity and the advancement of western culture." - Freder1ck

"The Church recognizes that in many ways she is linked with those who, being baptized, are honored with the name of Christian, though they do not profess the faith in its entirety or do not preserve unity of communion with the successor of Peter." - Freder1ck

"Catholic culture is implicitly Biblical — that's the good news. The bad news, which I'll discuss in another post, is that Catholics aren't often aware of how Biblical they are. Too often, Catholics lack a fresh and familiar sense of the Scriptures as something happening here and now..." - Freder1ck

"There is a certain difficulty in speaking about the Holy Spirit, even a certain danger." - Freder1ck

"This letter has a “breath” for which we cannot but thank the Pope, all the more as we see increasing the rigidity of those who reduce Christian life to a stifling moralism. Nothing, more than a letter like this, makes me proud of belonging to the Church, full of confidence that should I myself go wrong I will be treated with the same mercy." - Freder1ck

A curious thing about Giussani is that he always insists that the method by which we come to know Christ must be the same method that the disciples came to know him. - Freder1ck

like having access to 50 coffee table books dedicated to Chartres Cathedral... - Freder1ck

Re: Pope Benedict XVI: «He dines alone often and spends lengthy hours studying and reflecting. In today’s Vatican there is no longer that special Polish court of friends working as a buffer between the Pope and the Curia, which characterized Pope Wojtyla’s pontificate and somewhat helped him to bear the solitude of the Supreme Keys. From the point of view of the Papal daily schedule we’re back to the sober routine of few qualified friends admitted, as was for Paul VI and the love for prayerful and reflective reservedness of Pius XII» - Freder1ck

«Robert Lively, vice president of a pharmaceutical company in Washington, DC, and a member of the Order of Malta, a Roman Catholic service organization, volunteers every year at Lourdes. He has made the trek eight times and says he intends to continue. What keeps him going back, he explains, is the “intensely powerful” experience he has had there, something he describes as “a healing of the heart.” All Lourdes pilgrims have their own personal experiences, he observes. “People overcome anxieties, fears, and are given hope.” His first visit, he says, was marked by fatigue and exasperation until he says he asked the Virgin Mary, “What should I pray for?” The reply he says he heard was, “If you would be forgiven, you first must forgive.'» - Freder1ck

in this Body we taste what total gift of our humanity is - Freder1ck

"Balthasar's treatment of the Petrine, Pauline, Johanine, and Marian charisms is his version of what Avery Dulles intended for his now classic text, Models of the Church. Both are works of ecumenically aware and self-critical meditations on the form of the Church (note: that both insist on overlapping models coexisting — how Catholic!); they both also recognize the value in the Christian experience of Protestants while not shrinking from critical observations." - Freder1ck

"I can only testify to the impact of baptism in my life." - Freder1ck

It seems to me that baptism is like a seed, like a tiny fertilized speck in a chicken egg. Eventually that speck will conquer every bit of the egg so that when the chick hatches all that is left is yellow fluffiness. - Freder1ck