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  • Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
  • Benedict, put simply, is living out what he spoke of in Deus Caritas Est, which is true charity: Can we simply exclude them, as representatives of a radical fringe, from our pursuit of reconciliation and unity? Ecumenism
  • By beatifying him, Pope Benedict is holding up to the whole Church the life and teachings of Cardinal Newman as a sure guide for us to follow, and as an inspiration for the Church today. " Te Deum Laudamus "
  • I thought I could bestow beauty like a benediction and that your half-dark flesh would answer to the prayer.
  • Americans tried to take part of British Canada in December 1775, when forces led by Benedict Arnold and Richard Montgomery unsuccessfully attacked Quebec.
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  • The job we all loved was at Benediction, an evening service where one altar boy was in charge of the thurible.
  • The Benedictine abbey is long gone but the eleventh-century church remains, and is one of the finest survivors of the Romanesque in France.
  • For being summoned to come and receiue his consecration at Canturburie (as alreadie yee haue heard) through counsell of the canons Yorke he refused so to doo: bicause they informed him that if he so did, it should be greatlie preiudiciall to the liberties of that sée, whose archbishop was of like authoritie in all things vnto the archbishop of Canturburie, so that he was bound onelie to fetch his consecration and benediction at Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.
  • As Pope Benedict XVI makes public tours of Washington and New York City this week, he won't be seen in the open-top "Popemobile" familiar from video shot in St. Peter's Square. Pope visit balances access, security
  • The bishop is represented as in the act of benediction, with a pastoral staff, and in full pontificals; his head is shown as resting on a cushion, and is surmounted by a trefoil arch with a crocketed gable, and a censer-bearing angel on each side. Ely Cathedral
  • Parlez-vous français, mesdemoiselles!" cried madame, and we filed out into the dusty street, at the corner of which sat another of our visible tokens of the coming of the season of flowers; a dirty, shriveled old Irishwoman, full of benedictions and beggary, who, all through the summer, sold "posies" to the passers-by. Six to Sixteen: A Story for Girls
  • Last month we launched three substations in the Eastern Cape and before the end of June we will be launching the Benedict substation in Nkandla. Speech by Ms Buyelwa Sonjica, MP, Minister of Minerals and Energy, introducing the debate on the Minerals and Energy Budget Vote
  • Brooks's to hear a rechauffe of these things, or assist at the incense offered to Charles, or his benediction and salut to those he protects. George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life
  • Born a peasant in the mountainous Cantal region of France in about 950, Gerbert entered a Benedictine monastery -- the only elementary school of his day. Nancy Marie Brown: The Abacus and The Cross: When the Pope Was A Scientist
  • He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
  • As Clifford Geertz has argued, in a witty and perceptive essay on Benedict, in itself the book is perhaps better seen as a kind of Swiftian satire, in which the alienness of Japan is used to unsettle US assumptions about the naturalness of their own society, than as a work of 'scienti c' anthropology (Geertz 1988; see also Lummis 1982). Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • For De Vos, Benedict's text had been both an inspiration and a foil, against which he argued that the Japanese are a deeply interiorized and guilt-ridden people and not motivated by external emotions rooted in social shame as Benedict had described. Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : The Fox
  • The local name (endonym) for Munich is München, derived from Mönch (monk) as the city was founded by Benedictine monks in 1158. Answers.com: Today's Highlights
  • Pope Benedict lauded himself for the respect and solidarity he gives to the minority groups, the emarginated and religious believers of other denominations while at the same juncture he was encouraging the Maltese majority to continue with its ongoing suppressive attitude towards the minorities. Timesofmalta.com
  • Perhaps the most remarkable proposition in Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter Caritas in Veritate, therefore, is the controversial assertion that gratuity-or as the official English translation frequently reads, "gratuitousness" - is essential to economic life. Catholic Community Speaks | AmericanCatholic.org
  • But Benedict, however "charming," is still stifling theologians who challenge ideas about Catholicism, says Thomas Reese, a Jesuit priest and former editor of the Jesuit-owned magazine America. U.S. visit will give pope a defining moment
  • Et post pauca rogauit vt diceremus benedictionem pro eo, quod et fecimus. The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
  • Remember the general theme of Pope Benedict XVI on the liturgy is the "Reform of the reform". A little snag with the SSPX reunion
  • When the old woman had made an end of her ablution, she came up to where he sat, and prayed a two bow prayer; after which she blessed my brother with a godly benediction, and he while thanking her put his hand to the dinars and gave her two, saying to himself “These are my voluntaries.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Pope Benedict XVI has said that the distribution of condoms 'aggravates' the Aids crisis, on his Africa trip. Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • Fortunately, at least the Spanish Church has issued a nice communiqué in filial support of our great Benedict XVI. Cardinal Cañizares on Liturgical Reforms, Summorum Pontificum
  • A Benedictine like these his brothers, tonsured and habited, he stood erect in the dignity of his office and the humility and simplicity of his nature, as fragile as a child and as durable as a tree. His Disposition
  • VATICAN CITY, 7 OCT 2009 (VIS) - During his general audience, held this morning in St. Peter's Square, Benedict XVI focused his catechesis on St. John Leonardi, patron of pharmacists, the 400th anniversary of whose death falls on 9 October. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog
  • President Barack Obama "suntanned" even though he caused a political Premier Silvio Berlusconi had his first meeting Saturday with Pope Benedict XVI since the Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico ... scandal surrounding Silvio Berlusconi ... WN.com - Articles related to Global hunger worsening, warns UN
  • Just where Faceman was ice-cool, desperately shallow and slightly horny all the time, Dirk Benedict also appears to be ice-cool, desperately shallow and slightly horny all the time. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Can John Win?
  • There is general agreement that the most outstanding of all Galician wine is the white Albarino from the Val de Salnes, introduced from the Rhine by Benedictine monks from Cluny during the twelfth century.
  • Below is a video from Tenebrae of Good Friday, showing two of the Matins responsories, and the Benedictus with its antiphon in English. Tenebrae at Blackfriars Oxford
  • To adapt Benedict Anderson's felicitous phrase, hockey is one cultural activity through which Canadians are often said to imagine their community.
  • Traxi moram in Cambalu tribus annis: fratres nostri locum habent in Curia sua specialiter, et festis diebus statutis dant benedictionem, Odericus. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Now he enjoys the popularity that being the worlds oldest benedictine monk brings.
  • He was an officer in the Irish Guards before becoming a novice monk in the Benedictine Order in 1955.
  • HPConfig. blog_id = 3; var ads_page_type = 'bpage'; var zone_info = "huffpost. world/blog; world = 1; nickname = rev-astrid-storm; entry_id = 334819; anglicans = 1; catholic-church = 1; ecumenical = 1; ecumenism = 1; episcopal-church = 1; gay-priests = 1; homophobia = 1; liberal-protestant = 1; pope-benedict = 1; religion = 1; rowan-williams = 1; women-priests = 1"; if (top! Rev. Astrid Storm: Memo to Rome: Some of Us Like the Reformation
  • May the Lord bless you, my sweet child," said the doctor, lifting one hand painfully and laying it in benediction on her fair and graceful head. The Hidden Hand
  • Flora, seeming to give her Benediction, having a large Nosegay in her Hand, from whence spouts forth small Streams of Water, as if she meant therewith to bedew the whole Garden. Exilius
  • It seemed worthwhile sharing some photos taken by Vernon Quaintance from St. Augustine's Abbey in Ramsgate, which shows a recent Mass there in the modern form of the Roman liturgy, which was celebrated on the occasion of the golden jubilee of the monastic profession of the Very Rev. Dom Benedict Austen, OSB this past March 21st, 2009. St. Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate
  • Besides "-- drily --" an unattached bachelor is considerably more in demand as a painter of society women's portraits than a Benedict. The Moon out of Reach
  • Baptisms are performed out of a horse trough, and ‘Happy Trails To You ‘constitutes the sung benediction.’
  • In 1412-13 Bishop Wardlaw and Pope Benedict XIII incorporated and chartered St Andrews University, the nation's first.
  • It isn't often we're receiving visitors ... much less from Rome," Sister Katherine Dominica said with a benedictory smile that made Rosetti distrust her. Cradle and All
  • In greater doses they invert the motions of the stomach and lacteals; and hence vomit or purge, as carduus benedictus, rhubarb. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life
  • the infamous Benedict Arnold
  • She belonged to a Benedictine monastery in Gundersheim which was a center of intellectual and religious activity.
  • During the month of May on Sunday evenings, Adoration will finish with Rosary and Benediction at 6pm.
  • 'O Edgar!' exclaimed Camilla, stopping the reading, and putting her hand, as in benediction, upon the paper, 'do you deign to talk of disappointment? do you condescend to intimate you are unhappy? Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • WASHINGTON When Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a six-day U.S. visit Tuesday, his every public move — from "Popemobile" motorcades to stadium Masses — will be choreographed according to an elaborate security plan that began taking shape when the trip was announced in September. Pope visit balances access, security
  • Following the Mass, parishioners will march in procession as one body to the Convent of Mercy where Benediction will be imparted.
  • In the case of a male prostitute, says Benedict, using a condom to reduce the risk of HIV infection "can be a first step in the direction of moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility, on the way toward recovering an awareness that not everything is allowed and that one cannot do whatever one wants". Pope Benedict says that condoms can be used to stop the spread of HIV
  • His final official engagement abroad was an audience with the Pope, at which he sought benediction for a formal conversion to Catholicism.
  • Pope Benedict is expressing sympathy for religious minorities in the Muslim world.
  • Because yesterday I attended a talk by West and Josie Rourke, the director of the first show of the season, Much Ado About Nothing 'yay' - David, 'boo' - Lisa ;)) in which West plays Benedict. Archive 2005-08-01
  • II) also edited a benedictional from two manuscripts of the time of Charlemagne or a little later, formerly in the library of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • 3.10 About the same time Abbot Benedict ordered the transcription of sixty volumes, containing one hundred titles, for his library at Peterborough. 3.11 By 1244, in spite of losses in the fire of 1184, Glastonbury had a library of some four hundred volumes, historical books consorting with romances, Bibles and patristical works almost crowding out some forlorn classics. 3.12 Nearly half a century later Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
  • That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon. Springhaven
  • when Bulukiya landed and walked about the island he found therein many marvels, especially a bird whose body was of pearls and leek green emeralds and its plumery of precious metals; and it was engaged in singing the praises of Allah the Most High and blessing Mohammed (upon whom be benediction and peace!). The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • _carduus benedictus_, made in the third night of the waxing moon, but without the aid of magic. The Hermit and the Wild Woman
  • VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI decried what he called a spreading pessimism about marriage, saying Thursday it is not the impossible undertaking many make it out to be. Kentucky.com: Homepage
  • Raising her hands, she said a brief benediction.
  • Jarvis meekly swallowed the remains of his coffee, and trotted after Benedict. A DEATH IN TIME
  • Both Pius XI and Pius XII had pontificates that built upon the concordats begun under Benedict.
  • And then follow it up with Eucharistic adoration and benediction services in every parish.
  • Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
  • In January, he delivered the benediction at the President's inauguration.
  • I left my benediction on this pretty little natural caravansera, and a brief record on one of its white birches, hoping to visit it again on some sweet summer or autumn day. Pages from an Old Volume of Life; a collection of essays, 1857-1881
  • After about twenty seconds he returned to his students and raised his hands in a benedictory gesture. Final Theory
  • Pope Benedict has given us an initial stab at the challenge in Deus caritas est in his treatment of the relationship between eros and agape and the transformation of disordered eros into an ordered eros that provides the vitality for agape love. Pope John Paul II
  • The Malaysian financier, Benedict said, demanded 29 percent interest, a usurious amount indeed.
  • Unlike his predecessor, who was seen as ecumenical, Benedict is seen as a sectarian who will not reach out to other religions.
  • Some impressions from the Mass and procession on the feast of Corpus Christi celebrated by Pope Benedict in Rome: Corpus Christi 2009 in Rome
  • The minister in Gods name blesses his i.e. Gods people agreeable to the practice of the apostles, who generally close the epistles with a benediction in the name of the Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
  • Benedict put the pail down beside the vet, then returned to where Grace was standing, nursing her bandaged arm. GRACE
  • Another American priest who frequently visits the Vatican described the pope as "harried," which is an unsettling adjective, given that it is so rarely applied to Benedict, an academic by profession and disposition who always acts very deliberately and is rarely knocked off his game by daily events and pressures. AOL News Collection:All top stories collection
  • At the conclusion of his installation homily, Benedict spoke eloquently of friendship in Christ, and how it opens the doors to mutual trust.
  • Do I need to tell you that the last thing you want as a starter to your evening meal after a day of tropical heat is eggs Benedict?
  • The Washington Post reported today that the Head ‘bagger is calling him “Benedict Brown”, and that Brown’s Facebook fan page has been loaded with people calling him “Judas”, and “sell-out” … just as we predicted. Think Progress » REPORT: WellPoint Raising Premium Rates By Double Digits In At Least 11 States
  • In September, human rights lawyers and victims of clergy sexual abuse filed a complaint in the United States urging the International Criminal Court in The Hague to investigate and prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and three top Vatican officials for crimes against humanity for what they described as abetting and covering up the rape and sexual assault of children by priests. NYT > Home Page
  • The yellow Spring sun, like liquid honey, fell in benediction on the leafless trees, big with buds, and on the tawny mat of grass through which the blue noses of anemones were sticking. Purple Springs
  • Organized also to send for each classmate to have a benedictory and elegant birthday greeting card up the label, receive the classmates to bless and thank sincerely.
  • Pope Benedict XVI sent greetings to Tour riders and organizers as the pack passed close to the Alpine retreat of Les Combes, overlooking Mont Blanc, where the pontiff is staying. Astarloza wins Stage 16, Contador holds yellow
  • Benedict also discussed his contentious speech in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006, which provoked the ire of the Muslim world; denounced drug abuse; explained what he described as the impossibility of ordaining women as priests; and, with surprising candor, said that if he did not feel up to the task of being pope, he would resign. The Seattle Times
  • (canon 30): "Et quia convenit ordinem ecclesiae ab omnibus aequaliter custodiri studendum est ut ubique fit et post antiphonas collectiones per ordinem ab episcopis vel presbyteris dicantur et hymni matutini vel vesperenti diebus omnibus decantentur et in conclusione matutinarum vel vespertinarum missarum post hymnos, capitella de psalmis dicantur et plebs collecta oratione ad vesperam ab Episcopo cum benedictione dimittatur". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • It might seem strange to open a reflection on Pope Benedict XVI's recent missionary journey to Britain by flagging an initiative by people not normally admitted to the ecumenical tent, but in reality the pope's visit seems to have pre-empted this venture ... or is it a move of the Holy Spirit? The UK One Month After Benedict
  • The priest pronounced a benediction over the couple at the end of the marriage ceremony.
  • Internal evidence also suggests that he was a Benedictine monk and priest who was both educated and conversant with scholastic philosophy.
  • Two tentaculate surface deposit feeders, Streblospio benedicti and Marenzelleria viridis were tested; one in the laboratory and one in the field.
  • The ring was on her hand, the Bishop’s benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the Mendelssohn March, without which no newly-wedded couple had ever emerged upon New York. XIX. Book II
  • Benedict, who had arrived yesterday, was looking extremely handsome in full mourning, even to a black cravat.
  • The job we all loved was at Benediction, an evening service where one altar boy was in charge of the thurible.
  • I remember seeing her praying in the back pews of our church on Sunday afternoons when I served as an acolyte at benediction.
  • German Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, is known as a traditionalist with uncompromising views.
  • The annual May Procession was held in the Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Swinford, on Sunday evening, May 30, at 7pm with Rosary and Benediction.
  • Quinlan invited the Benedictines from St. Vincent's Abbey, Pa., to the dioc ese, and they settled at Cullman. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
  • The church and monastic buildings on Lindisfarne today date from the Norman period when a Benedictine monastery was established on the island.
  • There's simply nothing "descriptivist" about referring to Pope Benedict as Pope Benedict. URGENT The "Reform of the Reform" is in motion
  • On Friday, Benedict lamented what he called strains on the traditional African family, condemning sexual violence against women and chiding countries that have approved abortion. Undefined
  • Pope Benedict XVI rode the "Popemobile" to a Mass during a May 13, 2007 visit to Aparecida, Brazil. swapContent ( 'firstMediumStoryPhoto', 'applyMediumStoryPhoto'); Pope visit balances access, security
  • There were quite a few bottles gathering dust in the liquor cabinet - Benedictine, framboise, aquavit - and he decided he might as well try them all.
  • Our thanks, yet again, to Shirley for arranging another highly successful outing, and to Richard for rounding off the day with such a benedictory and appropriate poetry recital.
  • Here her analysis is most surefooted as she discusses late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century fiction, Benedict's professional bailiwick.
  • In his homily, he took up the words of Pope Benedict's homily at Solemn Vespers on the occasion of the conclusion of the Pauline Year highlighted on the NLM, and exhorted the new priests to be committed to the inviolability of human life from its first instant, thereby radically opposing the principle of violence also precisely in the defence of the most defenceless human creatures is part of an adult faith. Ordinations in Toledo
  • But that doesn't mean that it's okay that the title identified the ranch and then gave it's location as "Benedict Canyon". A little less "drama", a little more emphasis on the "docu", please...
  • That benediction remained with Tisana like a candle's glow through all the rest of the day. MAJIPOOR CHRONICLES
  • From the subprior of the Monastery of Saint Benedict at Norcia, Italy; for a newsletter PDF, including more information and an interview, click here. A NEW BIRITUAL MONASTERY Traditional Mass in Norcia, Italy
  • The prayers will be said in the graveyard at 8 pm and benediction in the church will follow.
  • Benedict drew up a rule for the monastic communities which were based on needs and functions.
  • One casualty of the battle for Monte Cassino was the Benedictine monastery, built in the 6th century.
  • Chariots and horsemen, men and maidens, the grim visages of age and the dusky beauty of youth, in lengthened procession, with palms, and music, and benediction, in behalf of that early world paid the last tribute to a great and just benefactor, to a builder Abraham Lincoln: The Just Magistrate, the Representative Statesman, the Practical Philanthropist
  • She prayed for Mam after Communion and at Benediction, saying for her Miss Dennison's pink rosary. THE GOLDEN LION
  • It cannot be alleged that there is an antiphrasis in the word of benediction, as if it were used in a sense contrary to what is usual; because it plainly appears to be applied by Moses in a good, and not an evil sense. Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
  • Benedictine of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, and chronologist, born at Gourieux near Namur, Belgium, 1 April, 1688; died in the monastery of the "Blancs-Manteaux", Paris, 3 November, 1746. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
  • He repeated Ming O'Brien's theory and begged her to tell him what had happened to King Benedict when he was young. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
  • Alexander Benedictus, of a maid that was mad, ob menses inhibitos, cum in officinam meritoriam incidisset, a quindecem viris eadem nocte compressa, mensium largo profluvio, quod pluribus annis ante constiterat, non sine magno pudore mane menti restituta discessit. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • Indeed, children in the family setting may hear similar invocations and benedictions at inaugurals and other public ceremonies.
  • Benedict drew a hissing breath, and pulled up his horses, his eyes never leaving hers.
  • He was also among the first world leaders to bend the knee before Pope Benedict XVI after the pontiff's elevation earlier this year.
  • Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.
  • Befo 'I pernounces de benediction, I wants ter' spress de thanks o 'dis chu'ch ter de' oner'ble visitor wha 'set' isse'f so modes 'in de las' pew dis evenin ', _an' den sen 'up de bigges' conterbutiom_, fulfillin 'de words o' de Scripture, which say _de las 'shill be fus' an 'de fus' shill be las_ '. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
  • He has attended several retreats at the abbey, run by the Catholic order of Benedictine monks.
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  • A more immediate worry, says Bruegel think tank researcher Benedicta Marzinoto, are fears larger European economies will be pulled into the eurozone debt crisis. EU Leaders to Continue Search for Economic Answers
  • Benedict did not mean such congradulations as a signal that he countenanced abortion but it had the effect on Catholic leaders of throwing off their instincts as to what to do in social situations touching on this issue and touching on public figures who supported abortion. The funeral and the letter
  • Near the end of the Mass Benedict walked down from the altar to distribute Holy Communion.
  • Sodano's defence of the pope's "unfailing" leadership and courage, as well as of the work of priests worldwide with children entrusted to their care, built on a vigorous Vatican campaign to defend Benedict's moral authority. CTV News RSS Feed
  • It makes, however, an imposing finale, since it is on the whole cheerful in mood - in the key traditionally associated with blessing and benediction.
  • Stripped to its essentials, her endeavor bestows a constitutional benediction upon the intellectual legerdemain that enables universities to practice racial discrimination.
  • The ring was on her hand, the Bishop's benediction had been given, the bridesmaids were a-poise to resume their place in the procession, and the organ was showing preliminary symptoms of breaking out into the The Age of Innocence
  • Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
  • Both defended the right of Israel to exist, both condemned the violence, but Benedict XVI spoke in precise terms of the Two States; he even said that the security barrier is unacceptable and that Jerusalem has to be the capital of both States. Islam
  • He was also a pupil and then housemaster at the Roman Catholic boys' school attached to the abbey and run by the Benedictines.
  • Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed at the memorial to victims of a 1944 massacre that was one of the worst atrocities by German occupiers in Italy during World War II and denounced what he called the "abominable" legacy of violence unleashed during war. The Seattle Times
  • The first few nights Mom slipped me half a Vicodin and a nip of Benedictine brandy.
  • Originally these classes of books were inserted in the alphabetical list mostly under the word libri until the Index was reformed under Benedict XIV. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
  • We can see the Benedictines roaring with laughter, twisting in their seats, their faces changing color like the chimera's skin was supposed to do.
  • As far as the church's purification is concerned, Benedict has already been cleaning house, accepting the resignations of a few bishops in recent weeks who either admitted they sexually abused youngsters or covered up for priests who did. Pope sees sex scandal as greatest threat to Catholic church
  • In recent times Adoration also takes place every Wednesday in the Parish Church from 10.30 am and concluding with Benediction at 5.45 pm.
  • He held the office of Promotor Fidei --- paradoxically called advocatus diaboli --- for more than 20 years, before rising to the papacy (Benedict XIV) in 1740. Te Deum laudamus!
  • They in turn are flanked, as on the altar of St. Benedict, by two holy bishops, Saints Denis (the putto is holding his head) and Augustine (holding aloft his burning heart). Neuzelle Abbey
  • Moreover, the language was changed in LBW from a benedictory bestowal formula to an epicletic prayer formula as in Baptism where the Spirit's gifts are also named: ‘the spirit of wisdom and understanding…’.
  • Benedict XVI continued, saying that from the cross, Jesus sees his Mother and the beloved apostle, a very important individual, but more important he is a prefiguration of all loved people, all the disciples and especially all priests. Liturgy
  • The Holy Eucharist and Benediction are celebrated daily, morning and evening respectively.
  • We close with a communion service; youth serve the older members the bread and wine, saying a special blessing and benediction upon their new friends.
  • Benedict pointed downwards again with his stick.
  • The last pope to hold the name of Benedict was an Italian whose reign from 1914 to 1922 encompassed World War I.
  • VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI on Monday (Nov. 15) warned against doping in athletic competition, a practice he called incompatible with "human and Christian values. Pope Warns Athletes On Doping
  • Desponsatio tua, Dei Genitrix Virgo, gaudium annuntiavit universo mundo: ex te enim ortus est Sol iustitiæ, Christus Deus noster: qui solvens maledictionem, dedit benedictionem: et confundens mortem, donavit nobis vitam sempiternam. Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
  • There was one church in Yarmouth, St. Nicholas's Church, which was dedicated to St. Benedict.
  • Just two months later, Pope Benedict XVI, a longtime close associate, waived the traditional five-year "cooling-off period" to kick off the process of sainting the Polish pope. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • Since then, Prince has converted to Roman Catholicism - and may be a member or associate of Opus Dei, a very conservative cult now described as a prelature that is a strong ally of the current pope, Benedict XVI, who - when he was a Cardinal - paved the way for the beatification and canonization of the cult's founder, St. Josemaria Escriva by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. GlobalResearch.ca
  • Item si aliquam itta infirmari contigerit quod ad locum consuetum communioni uenire non possit. si oporteat eam communicari: sacerdos ... corpus chrisi deferens. reuerenter precedentibus eum duabus sororibus cum cereis, et una cum aqua benedicta. et alia campanellam deferente: associantibus nihilominus aliqubus de maturioribus sororibus ad infirmariam uadat. et infirmam communicet. prout in ordinario continetur. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • Traxi moram in Cambalu tribus annis: fratres nostri locum habent in Curia sua specialiter, et festis diebus statutis dant benedictionem, Odericus. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • She could only raise her hand in a gesture of benediction.
  • In future consistories, Pope Benedict and his successors are likely to come under more pressure to ignore the rules as the demographics of the church continue to shift. Cardinals
  • The former deputy to Pope Benedict XVI when the pontiff was the Munich archbishop rebutted suggestions made in letters written by a friend that he had been pushed into taking sole responsibility for reassigning a pedophile priest to active ministry 30 years ago. Role of Pope's Ex-Deputy in Priest Case Questioned
  • Toward the end of his life, Benedict drew up his rule for this community.
  • The instruments had cost Benedict a fortune, but thankfully he was already a millionaire.
  • Candles are used at several services in the church especially Mass and Benediction.
  • It is the only Benedictine community for nuns in Ireland and, like many other orders, is experiencing a serious decline in vocations.
  • In place of reading the important late colonial chronicle of Michoacan by Pablo Beaumont, he relies on redactions of it by the prominent historian Benedict Warren.
  • And while successive popes soon fell into the era of the papal schism, and then into the Reformation and the fracturing of the western Church, the claims of Benedict were long maintained in somewhat more subtle and nuanced forms.
  • The outcome of this initiative was probably the foundation of a Canterbury priory at Dunfermline, the first ‘regular’ Benedictine house in the Scottish kingdom.
  • In one are seven towels, in another seven sponges: when the choir sings the Benedictus of Lauds, small brushes of box or yew but generally of bloodwort, arranged in the form of a diadem, are distributed to the canons. The Tradition of the Washing of the Altar
  • I received a parting smile, like a benediction, from Russell Bissell. NO BODY
  • Nordau took it from Bénédict Morel, a French psychiatrist, who was alarmed at what he considered accelerating cretinism and insanity. Bloodlust
  • He asked the Waldorf Astoria hotel staff to whip him up his own creation, now known as Eggs Benedict: half an English muffin, topped with bacon or ham, poached eggs, and rich Hollandaise sauce.
  • A. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is an act of divine worship in which the Blessed Sacrament, placed in the ostensorium, is exposed for the adoration of the people and is lifted up to bless them. Baltimore Catechism No. 3 (of 4)
  • Benedict lamented what he called the "divide" between wealthy and poor nations, and the harm many people are suffering to their dignity. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
  • A kindly, gray-whiskered old gentleman came tottering and rocking into view, his rosy, wrinkled face beaming benediction on the world as he passed through it -- on the sunshine dappling the undergrowth, on the furry squirrels sitting up on their hind legs to watch him pass, on the stray dickybird that hopped fearlessly in his path, at the young man sitting very rigid there on his bench, at the fair, sweet-faced girl who met his aged eyes with the gentlest of involuntary smiles. The Tracer of Lost Persons
  • I’d barely stumbled in when I heard my name shouted as a benediction. No Mercy
  • Coming before the altar along with the major ministers, he imposes incense in two thuribles; with one of these, he incenses the Blessed Sacrament as at Benediction. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
  • Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday strongly criticized the "aggressive" antichurch sentiment that he said was flourishing in same-sex marriage, expedited divorce and eased restrictions on abortions. NYT > Home Page
  • Crucial to the prosecution was the willingness of other Benedictine sisters to testify against them.
  • Basically, Dirk Benedict – the guy who was Starbuck, and has spent the last two decades hanging around conventions like a ghost ever since the original show got cancelled – says that the fact that Starbuck was transformed into a girl for the recent revamp is a sign of the decline of masculinity. Mixed Messages, And When To Send Them
  • The bishop was also titular abbot of the Benedictine monastery in the town, and the head of the household of monks bore the title of prior, but was mitred like an abbot. A River So Long
  • Against what he calls the " banalization of sexuality, " Pope Benedict offers a message: There is a better way. The Pope and the Condom
  • I received a parting smile, like a benediction, from Russell Bissell. NO BODY
  • As a Saxon Benedictine, Hrotsvit wrote lives of saints, epic Ottonian histories, and brief dramas of Christian martyrs and heroines.
  • Rosary and Benediction will take place in Westport church every Sunday throughout the month of October at 6 pm.
  • Fr Heck was a jubilarian in profession and priesthood, the senior member of the Swiss-American Congregation in profession, priesthood and age, and the senior in age of the entire confederation of Benedictine monks throughout the world. CathNews
  • Born in Mainz around the year 780, Rabanus entered the monastery when he was still very young: the name Maurus was given him precisely in reference to the young Maurus who, according to the second book of St. Gregory the Great's "Dialogues," had been given at a very young age to the abbot Benedict of Nursia by his own parents, who were Roman nobles. Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought"
  • AP - Pope Benedict XVI, center, flanked by bishops Franco Camaldo, right, and Guido Marini holds the ostensory … By VICTOR L. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • After they've stowed away about eleventeen courses, from grapefruit and sherry to demitasse and benedictine, them that can leave the table without wheel chairs wanders out into the front rooms, and the men light up fresh perfectos and hunt for the smokin 'den, and the women get together in bunches and exchange polite knocks. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe
  • As the convention concluded, a revivalist preacher conducted a benediction.
  • Pope Benedict said the "sheer fixation on the condom implies a banalisation of sexuality BBC News - Home
  • Father Richard, who holds several administrative posts within the Benedictine order as well as being a parish priest, is a trained lawyer.
  • December 19th, 2008 at 3: 48 am uhh, yall know that rev. joseph lowery, of the african american church, and who SUPPORTS GAY MARRIAGE, will be delivering the benediction after the swearing in right? this is a throwing a little line to the younger evangelicals that like warren stuff, but still keeping one of his earliest supporters (rev lowery) have an equally big spot. Matthew Yglesias » The Warren Factor
  • You cannot eat eggs benedict without eating truffle, as a shaving of black truffle is the traditional garnish. 100 Things to Eat Before You Die | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Benedict did try to improve Vatican relations with France after the war by canonizing the French heroine Joan of Arc.
  • He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI. Prefect of the CDW: "The future of humanity is in the liturgy"
  • There was a gospel choir, a Hispanic singer of the national anthem and a rabbi offering a benediction.
  • In the Sermon on the Mount the benediction is pronounced upon the "poor in spirit" and those who "hunger and thirst after righteousness" (Mt 5: 3, 6). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Sister Benedicta, our best gardener at Polesworth, came here with me, the garth is her preserve. The Confession of Brother Haluin
  • Finally, the Padre took the asperge from the hands of one of the acolytes, and with a sign of the cross in benediction while he chanted the _Asperges_, gently sprinkled the holy water on the upturned face. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories
  • What you get in Danny Boyle's production and Nick Dear's adaptation of Mary Shelley's mythic fable, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller alternating as Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, is neither shlock nor satire. Frankenstein - review
  • Joan of Arc was finally canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920.
  • Members of other orders may, if they choose, gallop across the tundra to succour outcast Siberian lepers, or go white-water rafting in Katmandu, but a Benedictine takes vows of poverty, chastity, and stability.
  • JOHN ALLEN, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: We just received moments ago a statement from the Vatican confirming something we have been hearing rumors about throughout the day, which is that at, roughly 4: 15 this afternoon, at the Vatican Embassy here in Washington, Pope Benedict XVI met with a small group of victims of sexual abuse. CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2008

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