Tag: Feast of St. Mary

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  What Is The Songline Of Your Life? – A Sermon On Luke 1:46-55

  August 18, 2017

  Are you familiar with songlines? Songlines are a part of the aboriginal life. The aborigines tell a creation story in which creation ancestors wandered the continent singing out the name of everything that crossed their path – birds, animals, plants, rocks, caves, desert brush, waterholes – thereby singing the world and all creation into existence.… Read more
• Magnifying Mary; It Is Truly Meet.

  August 15, 2012

  Today, August 15, is the Feast of St. Mary. As the one who on earth stood in the most intimate relationship with the incarnate Son of God, she, of all the human race, must have the place of highest honor in the eternal life of God. (Holy Women, Holy Men) “It is truly right to Read more
• The Feast of St. Mary the Virgin, Dormition, and Assumption

  August 15, 2011

  Today, August 15, is one of the great Marian feast days. The Eastern Orthodox call it the Feast of the Dormition while Roman Catholics call it the Feast of the Assumption. They deal with the same event but the interpretation is a bit different. The Rev. Patrick Comerford offers the following distinction: The Orthodox Church Read more