Talking of the emotional heft of objects, one of the things that I found immediately moving about the film is the sense it has of a world where images are scarce, and where something
like a rosary bead can be invested with so much longing.
If a person does not understand or
like the rosary, for example, he is perfectly free, as a Christian, not to say it; yet for me it is a very wonderful thing, and it is my own private experience that it is said also by people of whom one would not believe it.
This is
like rosary beads.
Not exact matches
In fact, when l learn what's meant by «abbot» and «episcopal» When I have clearly understood why Mass precludes a disco ball When I distinguish easily dissent from sensus fidei And when I know the diff» rence twixt a rose window and
rosary When I can sing the Salve
like a dutiful Gregorian When I know all my heresies, Arian and Nestorian In short when I have exercised my understanding to the full A better ultramontanist never bestrode a papal bull
Physical «helps»
like making the sign of the cross or using the
rosary were banned.
In fact, what is really needed in Britain and in countries around the world generally, are National
Rosary Pledge campaigns,
like the one organized by Fr Pavlicek in Austria.
The
Rosary begins with the trusting faith of Mary who,
like the servants in the Gospel today, obey the Master: «Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.»
I have in my time made
rosary cakes for the Feast of the Holy Rosary and lavender butter for the Assumption, when herbs have traditionally been blessed; my friend Debbie, mother of Annie the Beekeeper, does things like angel hair pasta for St. Michael and All Angels, and «Untidy St. Josephs,» a.k.a. Sloppy Joes, for any feast involving the Most Chaste S
rosary cakes for the Feast of the Holy
Rosary and lavender butter for the Assumption, when herbs have traditionally been blessed; my friend Debbie, mother of Annie the Beekeeper, does things like angel hair pasta for St. Michael and All Angels, and «Untidy St. Josephs,» a.k.a. Sloppy Joes, for any feast involving the Most Chaste S
Rosary and lavender butter for the Assumption, when herbs have traditionally been blessed; my friend Debbie, mother of Annie the Beekeeper, does things
like angel hair pasta for St. Michael and All Angels, and «Untidy St. Josephs,» a.k.a. Sloppy Joes, for any feast involving the Most Chaste Spouse.
There are all kinds of people out there doing creative foody things in observance of the liturgical year, as sites
like Catholic Cuisine attest (take one look at my
rosary cake, and you'll understand why we didn't attempt that Sacred Heart Cake last Friday).
O'Connor's contrariness regarding conventional, perhaps - sentimental Catholic piety» she described herself as «a long standing avoider of May processions and such -
like nun - inspired doings,» and spoke dismissively of «the novena -
rosary tradition»» is a position clearly more comfortable and comprehensible to her biographer than is her adult devoutness.
Luther teached that a believer shall always live a life of righteousness by the power of his first baptism (mostly infant baptism) and if he has sinned again the believer shall exercise privat confession and return to his first baptism, but not try to get righteousness by good works (to say a
rosary, to do a pilgrimage, buy indulgence and the
like).
Like this Auschwitz barbed - wire
rosary» clipped with teeth and finger twisted, black - blood - stained, rain - encrusted, thorny, skin - pricking, motherly - misery - pregnant, passed from hand to bone - ripped ashen hand, brand of traitors to the empire, fire in chokehold chambers sparking visions of....
Mata wrote a letter to her 18 - year - old self —
like a lot of kids are instructed to do — while attending Holy
Rosary School in Woodland.
King Philip is almost Golum -
like walking in a weird way mumbling and constantly rubbing his
rosary beads.
Consequently, the former pastors» Spartan -
like daily regime consists of little more than chores, attending mass, confessing their sins and praying the
rosary between meals.
Her art exudes a quality of transcendence
like that of Monet's Nympheas or Matisse's Chapel of the
Rosary in Vence.
I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality,
like saying
rosaries.»
Every climate scientist who chants «we must act NOW» or «we need to do something»
like a nun saying the
rosary, needs to understand that there is not much we can do.