Bread on the Trail http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:55:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Saint Gregory the Great: St Thomas and Healing the Wounds of our Disbelief http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2012/07/saint-gregory-the-great-st-thomas-and-healing-the-wounds-of-our-disbelief.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2012/07/saint-gregory-the-great-st-thomas-and-healing-the-wounds-of-our-disbelief.html#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2012 14:55:59 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=119 My Lord and My God! In a marvellous way God’s mercy arranged that the disbelieving disciple, in touching the wounds of his master’s body, should heal our wounds of disbelief Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them...

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]]> My Lord and My God! In a marvellous way God’s mercy arranged that the disbelieving disciple, in touching the wounds of his master’s body, should heal our wounds of disbelief Thomas, one of the twelve, called the Twin, was not with them...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2012/07/saint-gregory-the-great-st-thomas-and-healing-the-wounds-of-our-disbelief.html/feed/ 0 A Sermon by St Augustine on St John’s Gospel: Behold, I shall save my people. http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/10/a-sermon-by-st-augustine-on-st-johns-gospel-behold-i-shall-save-my-people.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/10/a-sermon-by-st-augustine-on-st-johns-gospel-behold-i-shall-save-my-people.html#comments Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:06:00 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=113 ‘No-one can come to me unless the Father draws him.’ You must not imagine that you are being drawn against your will, for the mind can also be drawn by love. Nor should we be afraid of being taken to task by those who take words too literally and are quite unable to...

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]]> ‘No-one can come to me unless the Father draws him.’ You must not imagine that you are being drawn against your will, for the mind can also be drawn by love. Nor should we be afraid of being taken to task by those who take words too literally and are quite unable to...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/10/a-sermon-by-st-augustine-on-st-johns-gospel-behold-i-shall-save-my-people.html/feed/ 4 A Letter of St Clare to Blessed Agnes of Prague on Christian Contemplation http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/08/a-letter-of-st-clare-to-blessed-agnes-of-prague-on-christian-contemplation.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/08/a-letter-of-st-clare-to-blessed-agnes-of-prague-on-christian-contemplation.html#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:43:42 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=108 Consider the poverty, humility and charity of Christ Happy the soul to whom it is given to attain this life with Christ, to cleave with all one’s heart to him whose beauty all the heavenly hosts behold forever, whose love inflames our love, the contemplation of whom...

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]]> Consider the poverty, humility and charity of Christ Happy the soul to whom it is given to attain this life with Christ, to cleave with all one’s heart to him whose beauty all the heavenly hosts behold forever, whose love inflames our love, the contemplation of whom...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/08/a-letter-of-st-clare-to-blessed-agnes-of-prague-on-christian-contemplation.html/feed/ 0 St Cyril of Jerusalem on the Church as the Bride of Christ http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-cyril-of-jerusalem-on-the-church-as-the-bride-of-christ.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-cyril-of-jerusalem-on-the-church-as-the-bride-of-christ.html#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:50:57 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=104 "The Church is called ‘Catholic’: such is the proper name of the holy Church which is the mother of us all. She is also the bride of our...

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]]> "The Church is called ‘Catholic’: such is the proper name of the holy Church which is the mother of us all. She is also the bride of our...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-cyril-of-jerusalem-on-the-church-as-the-bride-of-christ.html/feed/ 0 St Ambrose: God’s temple is holy, and you are his temple http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-ambrose-gods-temple-is-holy-and-you-are-his-temple.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-ambrose-gods-temple-is-holy-and-you-are-his-temple.html#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:38:44 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=100 An explanation of Psalm 118 by St Ambrose My father and I will come to him and make our home with him. Open wide your door to the one who comes. Open your soul, throw open the depths of your heart to see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the sweetness of...

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]]> An explanation of Psalm 118 by St Ambrose My father and I will come to him and make our home with him. Open wide your door to the one who comes. Open your soul, throw open the depths of your heart to see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the sweetness of...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/07/st-ambrose-gods-temple-is-holy-and-you-are-his-temple.html/feed/ 0 Saint Augustine on the Feast of Peter and Paul http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/saint-augustine-on-the-feast-of-peter-and-paul.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/saint-augustine-on-the-feast-of-peter-and-paul.html#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:58:01 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=82 The Martyrs Had Seen what they Proclaimed This day has been consecrated for us by the martyrdom of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. It is not some obscure martyrs we are talking about. Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. These martyrs had seen what they proclaimed, they pursued justice by confessing the truth, by dying for the truth.   The blessed Peter, the first of the Apostles, the ardent lover of Christ, who was...

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]]> The Martyrs Had Seen what they Proclaimed This day has been consecrated for us by the martyrdom of the blessed apostles Peter and Paul. It is not some obscure martyrs we are talking about. Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. These martyrs had seen what they proclaimed, they pursued justice by confessing the truth, by dying for the truth.   The blessed Peter, the first of the Apostles, the ardent lover of Christ, who was...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/saint-augustine-on-the-feast-of-peter-and-paul.html/feed/ 0 Irenaeus of Lyons: Jesus Redeemed the Whole Human Person, Body, Soul and Spirit http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/irenaeus-of-lyons-jesus-redeemed-the-whole-human-person-body-soul-and-spirit.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/irenaeus-of-lyons-jesus-redeemed-the-whole-human-person-body-soul-and-spirit.html#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:36:17 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=78 Irenaeus of Lyons: Jesus Redeemed the Whole Human Person, Body, Soul and Spirit, by Deacon Keith Fournier "For that which He [i.e. Christ] has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is united to His Godhead is also saved. If only half Adam fell,...

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]]> Irenaeus of Lyons: Jesus Redeemed the Whole Human Person, Body, Soul and Spirit, by Deacon Keith Fournier "For that which He [i.e. Christ] has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is united to His Godhead is also saved. If only half Adam fell,...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/irenaeus-of-lyons-jesus-redeemed-the-whole-human-person-body-soul-and-spirit.html/feed/ 1 Pope Benedict XVI on the Feast of Corpus Christi http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/pope-benedict-xvi-on-the-feast-of-corpus-christi.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/pope-benedict-xvi-on-the-feast-of-corpus-christi.html#comments Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:33:18 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=75 Dear brothers and sisters! The feast of Corpus Domini is inseparable from the Holy Thursday Mass of in Caena Domini, in which the institution of the Eucharist is also celebrated. While on the evening of Holy Thursday we relive the mystery of Christ who offers himself to us in the bread broken and wine poured out, today, in celebration of Corpus Domini, this same mystery is proposed to the adoration and meditation of God's people, and the Blessed Sacrament is carried in...

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]]> Dear brothers and sisters! The feast of Corpus Domini is inseparable from the Holy Thursday Mass of in Caena Domini, in which the institution of the Eucharist is also celebrated. While on the evening of Holy Thursday we relive the mystery of Christ who offers himself to us in the bread broken and wine poured out, today, in celebration of Corpus Domini, this same mystery is proposed to the adoration and meditation of God's people, and the Blessed Sacrament is carried in...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/pope-benedict-xvi-on-the-feast-of-corpus-christi.html/feed/ 0 From a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer, Saint Cyprian http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/from-a-treatise-on-the-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer-saint-cyprian.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/from-a-treatise-on-the-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer-saint-cyprian.html#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:42:14 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=67 After the gift of bread we ask pardon for our sins As the Lord’s Prayer continues, we ask: Give us this day our daily bread. We can understand this petition in a spiritual and in a literal sense. For in the divine plan both senses may help toward our...

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]]> After the gift of bread we ask pardon for our sins As the Lord’s Prayer continues, we ask: Give us this day our daily bread. We can understand this petition in a spiritual and in a literal sense. For in the divine plan both senses may help toward our...

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]]> http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/from-a-treatise-on-the-lord%e2%80%99s-prayer-saint-cyprian.html/feed/ 0 From the treatise on the Trinity by Saint Hilary of Poitiers http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/from-the-treatise-on-the-trinity-by-saint-hilary-of-poitiers.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/2011/06/from-the-treatise-on-the-trinity-by-saint-hilary-of-poitiers.html#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:11:27 +0000 Deacon Keith Fournier http://blog.beliefnet.com/bread_on_the_trail/?p=61 The Father's gift in Christ Our Lord commanded us to baptise in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. In baptism, then, we profess faith in the Creator, in the only-begotten Son and in the gift which is the Spirit. There is one Creator of all...

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]]> The Father's gift in Christ Our Lord commanded us to baptise in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. In baptism, then, we profess faith in the Creator, in the only-begotten Son and in the gift which is the Spirit. There is one Creator of all...

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