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2017-04-26T12:05:01-05:00

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Far as the curse is found

Last updated on: April 26, 2017 at 12:05 pm By Aaron Matthew Weldon

The celebrations that surround the nativity of our Lord often seem to bring a mix of joy and sorrow. While one family enjoys the holidays with a new child, some parents endure the season having lost children during the previous year. Some folks find themselves surrounded by loved ones, while others feel the weight of loneliness, or of a broken family, most intensely. The joy of Christmas cannot but be alloyed with some sorrow when people with whom we are... Read more

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2013-01-02T17:32:34-05:00

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Looking Back at 2012

Last updated on: January 2, 2013 at 5:32 pm By Mark Gordon

Here’s your statistical overview of Vox Nova in 2012: We were viewed 470,000 times, which WordPress reminds us is about nine times the volume of tourist traffic that the Principality of Liechtenstein gets every year, so we’ve got that going for us … We sported 355 new posts, bringing the total archive of this site to just over 5,300 posts overall. Our busiest day was February 27, when 2,751 people stopped by, mainly to read MM’s post titled, “Santorum is... Read more

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2013-01-01T23:28:51-05:00

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The God-Bearer Got It

Last updated on: January 1, 2013 at 11:28 pm By Julia Smucker

In all these Marian feasts that are a part of the Catholic faith I’ve embraced, I’ve participated with a kind of curious fascination during the past couple of years, trying to get my mind around it all – and often finding that in the end the most I could do was, like Mary herself, to keep all these things and ponder them in my heart. Marian doctrine was never really a make-or-break issue for me, but I had a few of the... Read more

2013-01-01T00:26:32-05:00

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Sacre Bleu and the Mother of God

Last updated on: January 1, 2013 at 12:26 am By Mark Gordon

We are pleased to present a second guest post by Leanne Ogasawara, who writes from Japan, where she is a freelance translator and writer. When the German explorer Albert von Le Coq was at Kizil as part of his grand travels to “borrow” ancient artifacts in Central Asia (carving frescos right off the walls in some cases!), he was stunned to come upon cave temples in what was by that time the middle of nowhere with murals of such beauty... Read more

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2012-12-30T13:37:44-05:00

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A Priest to Remember

Last updated on: December 30, 2012 at 1:37 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

For the past few years I have been hearing about “John Paul II” priests. This appellation, sometimes self-applied and other times applied to others, refers to a loosely defined group of priests ordained during the long years of JP II’s pontificate. They are usually defined in opposition to the priest ordained in the years just after Vatican II. They are variously described as: more doctrinally orthodox, less pastoral, more wedded to a hierarchical vision of the Church, true to the... Read more

2012-12-28T22:35:34-05:00

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For the Holy Innocents, Then and Now

Last updated on: December 28, 2012 at 10:35 pm By Julia Smucker

I have heard the haunting melody of the Coventry Carol any number of times, but without having taken much notice of its text which refers to the massacre of the Holy Innocents, whose feast the Church observes on this day (see today’s Gospel reading, Matthew 2:13-18). But here it is indeed, and this year it has taken on a particularly bitter poignancy. Lully, lulla, Thou little tiny Child, By, by, lully, lullay. Thou little tiny Child, By, by, lully, lullay. O sisters, too, how may... Read more

2012-12-25T19:25:04-05:00

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Another Christmas, Another Appeal to Violence

Last updated on: December 25, 2012 at 7:25 pm By David Cruz-Uribe

My wife and I have many customs at Christmastide. Some are silly: for example, on Christmas Day we always cook hotdog wraps (hotdogs in a shell of biscuit dough) for our main meal. This started when the kids were really young: after going to midnight mass, putting all the presents out, and then getting up at 6 AM when the kids did, we were too tired to cook the elaborate meal we had planned. Hot dogs were quick, the kids... Read more

2012-12-25T11:02:09-05:00

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Truth is sprung out of the earth! Justice looked down from heaven!

Last updated on: December 25, 2012 at 11:02 am By Mark Gordon

From a Christmas sermon by St. Augustine Wake up, O man – it was for you that God was made man! Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light. For you, I say, was God made man. Eternal death would have awaited you had he not been born in time. Never would you be freed from your sinful flesh, had he not taken to himself the likeness of sinful flesh. Everlasting would be your... Read more

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2012-12-24T17:32:46-05:00

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Asking To Hold the Baby Jesus

Last updated on: December 24, 2012 at 5:32 pm By Nathan O'Halloran, SJ

I couldn’t wait till midnight. I was on my first 30-day retreat as a Jesuit in the Novitiate, and tonight at midnight I was going to ask Mary in my imagination while doing Ignatian contemplation to hold the baby Jesus in my arms. I was so excited. I had been waiting a long time for this. Finally the moment came, and I asked her if I could hold Jesus. And she said… “no.” Sort of stunned I asked, “why not?”... Read more

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2017-05-03T19:01:52-05:00

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Madeleine L’Engle and Robert Southwell: Two Poems for Christmas

Last updated on: May 3, 2017 at 7:01 pm By Brett Salkeld

The Risk of Birth This is no time for a child to be born, With the earth betrayed by war and hate And a comet slashing the sky to warn That time runs out and the sun burns late. That was no time for a child to be born, In a land in the crushing grip of Rome; Honor and truth were trampled by scorn- Yet here did the Savior make his home. When is the time for love to... Read more

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