A Treasure To Be Shared

Among the three memorial acclamations fixed in Divine Worship: the Missal, the third acclamation - O Saviour of the world - is frequently heard in Ordinariate communities. Arguably, it is the most patrimonial of the acclamations. The third acclamation is likely unfamiliar to most diocesan Catholics who visit Ordinariate communities. It is not included in the Novus Ordo Missae. The third acclamation is a statement of fact. Our redemption is wrought in and through Jesus Christ. Our hope and salvation is made known to us in the Mass. Acknowledging our dependency upon the Lord, we humbly plead with Him to rescue us and sustain us. The third acclamation invites the worshipper into a solemn intimacy of trust in the Lord. O Saviour of the world, who by thy Cross and precious Blood hast redeemed us: save us and help us, we humbly beseech thee, O Lord. The crib rests in the shadow of the Cross. This Christmas, when so many of the brethren are suffering at the hands of the many Herods of this w...

Arzoo Raja / Aid To The Church In Need UK photo  The constant threat to public safety caused by the adherents of a particular religious ideology is barely mentioned in the secular media. https://nasarean.org/index.php Abductions of young Christian girls are widespread. Deadly attacks on Christians throughout the Middle East and Africa are frequent, committed not by a mere few lost souls but by a hoard of perpetrators that appears to be multiplying every week ( World Watch List 2020 ). 2983 Christians were killed for faith-related reasons. On average, that's 8 Christians killed every day for their faith. (World Watch List 2020) Given that the abductors, rapists and murderers mentioned in the articles below explicitly and undeniably self declare their associations with a particular religious ideology, e.g., by the declaration of the Takbir, and given reputedly learned courts guided by a particular religious jurisprudence condone such behavior, one could be forgiven a charge of bias ...

We live in an age when ignorance reigns in the hearts of men. Young people are routinely subjected to a diet of revisionist history, and so substantially embrace the biases of their social studies teachers that they, blinded to the similarities between their own fascist tendencies and their ideological brethren, robustly resemble members of the Hitlerjugend or the Bund Deutsche Mädel . Aged agnostics, and not particularly honest ones at that, accord more force to their doubt and often times bizarre near-conspiracy-theory beliefs than surrender those same weird biases to the cleansing perspective of history provided by reliable contemporaries of historical events. Modern armchair historians swat away ancient reports like annoying flies rather than understand that, not being troublesome insects, those same accounts could teach them something about themselves, something about their bigotry, for starters. It might do them well, those armchair historians and fascist youngsters, to ...