Fr. Christian Mathis | July 13, 2011
My friend Jeff introduced me to this short video on the New Roman Missal. If you have been looking for a brief explanation of this upcoming change in the way we pray the mass, you might want to check it out. By the way, Jeff just recently became Fr. Jeff. Please keep him in your [...]
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Tags: church history, Fr. Jeff Johnson SJ, Lifeteen, Liturgy, Mark Hart, New Roman Missal, prayer
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 12, 2011
Well, actually not my future wife, but my fellow blogger Preston’s. Preston wrote this beautiful letter recently over at See Preston Blog and I asked if he would allow me to repost it here. I am happy that he agreed. My hope is that he will find a wife who is even better than the [...]
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Tags: dating, guest bloggers, letters, love, marriage, Preston Yancey, relationships
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 10, 2011
Derek Jeter’s 3000th hit was central in my homily today which was centered on the power God’s Word can have in our lives when we allow it to put down roots in our hearts. This is our first attempt as a parish to capture a bit of the preaching and music from our weekly liturgy. [...]
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Tags: baseball, Derek Jeter, God's Word, homilies, Liturgy, New York Yankees, preaching, St. Thomas, The Bible
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 2, 2011
Recently I have heard from both Catholics and non-Catholics alike who worry that making the claim that what one believes is true is an arrogant position to take since it sometimes implies that those with conflicting beliefs may be incorrect. Perhaps they are right, but I am not sure there is another alternative when it [...]
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Tags: arrogance, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholicism, chauvinism, division, Ecumenism, humility, Jack Chick, proselytism, Protestantism, unity
Fr. Christian Mathis | July 1, 2011
The holy sacrifice of the mass has often been referred to as a window to heaven. In this third part of Msgr. James Moroney’s explanation of the new Roman Missal, he uses these exact words to describe what it is we participate in each Sunday when we show up for church. We glimpse a bit [...]
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Tags: communion of the saints, heaven, Liturgy, mass, Msgr. James Moroney, New Roman Missal, prayer