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Tuesday, August 2, 2016

August 2: St Alphonsus Liguori, Memorial/Portiuncula indulgence

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Today is the memorial of St Alphonsus Mary de Liguorni (1696 – 1787), founder of the Redemptorists, so you might particularly say a pray...
Monday, August 1, 2016

August 1: The Holy Maccabees, Memorial

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 Stattler, 1844 Today's feast celebrates a group of pre-Christian martyrs, the Holy Maccabees. The setting is the Jewish rebel...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Prayer options for the stealth hermitess (and others) - Part III. The Divine Office

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So far in this series I have canvassed the non-liturgical options around prayer.   In this post I want to talk about liturgical pray...
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Prayer options for the stealth hermitess (and others) Pt 2 - Devotional Offices

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Liege book of hours associated with Beguines, National Gallery of Victoria In my previous post on options for an active prayer life...
Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Prayer options for the stealth hermitess (and others) - Part I

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St Julian of Norwhich One of the posts I've been meaning to put together for a while is on choosing which form of the Office (o...
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Monday, July 11, 2016

Feast of St Benedict (July 11)

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Today is the feast of Our Most Holy Father St Benedict.  St Gregory the Great started off his Dialogues, Book II as follows: "The...
Friday, July 1, 2016

St Benedict Novena - July 2

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Tomorrow is the day to start your Novena to St Benedict , leading up to the feast on July 11. If you do say it, could I ask that you mak...