Octave of Christian Unity – A Rosary Thread

On January 22, 2021January 18, 2023 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Doctrine, Christian unityLeave a comment

Welcome to Day 5 in the Octave of Christian Unity. I’m going to try something different tonight. I’ve been posting a Live Rosary Thread on Twitter (follow me on Twitter) for months now (this time around; I posted an earlier round for nine months from Summer 2018 to Easter Vigil 2019 the first time around). Tonight I devoted the Rosary thread to ending the culture of death and the Coronavirus crisis, and prayed for the Church and our country, too. I’m going to try to embed the thread here in this post and give my eyes a rest for the rest of the night. They’re dealing me fits. So here goes. Let’s see if it works. (Note: Success! It worked!) Note: This is the Twitter Rosary Thread for January 22, 2021.

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Octave of Christian Unity – Foundation

On January 22, 2021January 18, 2023 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Doctrine, Christian unityLeave a comment

+JMJ+ Welcome to Day 4 of the Octave of Christian Unity. In Conversation with God,* by Fr. Francis Fernandez Carvajal, is what I’m using as a jumping off place for this series of posts. I’ll refer to it as ICWG with volume & page number hereafter, or Ibid. Tonight’s keyword is Foundation, specifically, the Foundation of our Unity. Notes and links will be at the end of the post.

This chapter of the book begins with this sentence.

“The primacy of Peter is realized in the Church in the person of the Roman Pontiff.”
ICWG, vol 6, p. 39.

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Stand Up For Religious Freedom, Birmingham, Photos and Thoughts, Part 1

On March 23, 2012April 3, 2012 By Lee (@disciple96)In Action Alerts, Ecumenism, Freedom, News, October Baby, Patriotism, Pro-life, Spiritual Warfare4 Comments

[Note: This page has several photos on it, so I’m not posting the whole thing on the front page of the blog. See the post page for all the photos. Thanks!] I’ve been sitting in a cafe downloading and editing photos from the Stand Up For Religious Freedom Rally in Birmingham, AL, that took place from noon until around 1 p.m. today.

CEC For Life Director, Fr. Terry Gensemer

Didn’t realize that today is Fr. Coyle’s birthday. Who’s Fr. Coyle? He was a Catholic priest at St. Paul’s in downtown Birmingham, back before St. Paul’s was made the cathedral. He worked very hard to bring people together, used to pray the Divine Office on the steps outside the St. Paul’s so he could be close to those passing by. He was threatened many times for the audacity of true hope, for taking Christ’s prayer that we all be one seriously and doing something about it.

Hey, check it out! News cameras! Local news coverage! Maybe...

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Ecumenism, not pluralism

On April 22, 2009April 22, 2009 By Lee (@disciple96)In Catholic Doctrine, Ecumenism, Words and MeaningsLeave a comment

The word ecumenism is used everywhere these days. And most often it is used absolutely incorrectly. Ecumenism does not mean, “I’m okay, you’re okay, there’s no reason to bother ourselves about our differences, no need to examine what we teach or what we mean when we teach it…” Ecumenism, properly considered, is not pluralism. Continue reading “Ecumenism, not pluralism” →