by full_admin | Dec 31, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
The Adoration of the Magi. Pietro Perugino, 1442-1523. Italy. St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote, just 30 years or so after Matthew’s gospel waswritten, that the magi’s star was the sign that with the coming of the Christ allmagic was at an end.In the end,...
by full_admin | Dec 24, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
It is part of the Christian tradition that Christ was born in the night. The life=giving truth oftencomes to human beings in some kind of mental night as they endure and try to understand it.The night is the dark side of life in which the familiar shape of our world...
by full_admin | Dec 24, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
When people say that life, or their life, has a meaning we conclude that they have adopted acertain view of life which brings order into their experience. It proposes values for their rationalaspiration that excite their commitment. It enables them to act freely and...
by full_admin | Dec 22, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
You can hear the antiphon sung in Latin here, along with the Magnificat: O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver,the hope of the nations and their saviour,come and save us, O Lord our God.O Emmanuel (Isaiah 7:14; Matthew 1:23)Our king and our lawgiver (Isaiah 32:22,...
by full_admin | Dec 21, 2023 | Kevin's Messages
You can hear the antiphon sung in Latin here:And in English here: (They do a very nice job of it, but unlike virtually all versions of these antiphons, they do notobserve the flat in the second line of the music.) Link to English...
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