Making Room For Christ
Our Lady of Combermere, Ontario, Canada
Tell me what agreement there is
between the temple of God and idols.
You are the temple of the living God,
just as God has said:
Archive for July, 2007
The Days of Elijah… and Noah
Elijah and Elisha, Michael D. O’Brien
IN our day, I believe God has placed the "mantle" of the prophet of Elijah on many shoulders throughout the world. This "spirit of Elijah" will come, according to Scripture, before a great judgment of the earth:
Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with doom. Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day. (Mal 3:23-24)
Last Concert of the Summer
Mark and Lea Mallett in Concert
WE have added a concert to the end of our Summer US/Canada tour. This will be our final concert until October:
July 17th, 2007: Concert, Holy Family Parish, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA, 7:00 pm.
There is no admission; a free-will offering will be taken. Hope to see you there if you are in the area!
Bogged
MY soul is bogged.
Desire has fled.
I wade through a mud pond, waist deep… prayers, sinking like lead.
I trudge. I collapse.
I fall.
Fall.
Falling.
The Coming Resurrection
"The Tomb of Jesus", photo by T. Childers
THE purification of the world from evil will also, according to the Early Church Fathers, usher in an Era of Peace when Satan will be chained for a "thousand years." This will coincide also with a Resurrection of the saints and martyrs, according to the Apostle John:
They came to life and they reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection. (Rev 20:4-5)
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"Apocalypse", Michael D. O’Brien
TODAY, the Holy Father has released a long anticipated document, bridging the gap between the current Eucharistic Rite (Novus Ordo) and largely forgotten pre-Conciliar Tridentine rite. This continues, and perhaps makes "whole," the work of John Paul II in re-highlighting the Eucharist as the "source and summit" of Christian faith.