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Video in honor to Archbishop Oscar Romero

This is a video of the song El Padre Antonio y su Monaguillo Andres by Ruben Blades, in honor of Archbishop Romero. This video include actual video and the voice of Archbishop Romero

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Remembering Padre Camilo Torres

 

Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia on 3 February 1929 – died in Santander on 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of theLiberation Theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism with Catholicism, or vice-versa.
Torres was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954, but continued to study for some years at the Pontifical Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain) in Belgium. When he returned to Colombia, he [...]

Remembering Saint Gregory of Nyssa

Lessons appointed for the Feast of Saint Gregory of Nyssa
Date of birth unknown; died after 385 or 386. He belongs to the group known as the “Cappadocian Fathers”, a title which reveals at once his birthplace in Asia Minor and his intellectual characteristics. Gregory was born of a deeply religious family, not very rich in [...]

Remembering Saint Polycarp Bishop of Smyrna

 
 
Polycarp occupies an important place in the history of the Christian Church. He is among the earliest Christians whose writings survive. It is probable that he knew John the Apostle, the disciple of Jesus. He was an elder of an important congregation in an area where the apostles laboured. And he is from an era whose orthodoxy is widely [...]

Remembering Absalom Jones

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Absalom Jones (1746 – February 13, 1818), was an African-American abolitionist and clergyman. He was the first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States and founded a black congregation. He is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints and blessed under the date of his decease, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer as “Absalom Jones, Priest, 1818″.
Jones was born into slavery in Delaware in 1746. When he [...]

With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope.

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope [...]

Remembering Mev Puleo, Witness of Solidarity

“What does it means to be a Christian- a follower of the way of Jesus- in a world of contradictions and conflicts? What does it means to be on the way of Jesus when I view the worlds poverty from an air-conditioned tour bus?”

Mev Puleo (1963-1996), an American photojournalist and young Catholic who actively confronted [...]

Celebrating The Feast of Los Tres Reyes Magos (Biblical Magi)

Los Reyes arrive before dawn on January 6th. For centuries Puerto Rican children have celebrated Los Reyes in the same manner as their grandparents did when they were children. January 6 is called Epiphany and is traditionally the day in which the Magi arrived bearing gifts for the Christ child. Even to this day in [...]

Pilgrimage to the voting both/ Worshipping the Empire

We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God of the civilization of the world… God has marked us as his chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world… he has made us adept in government that we administer governments among savage and senile people.
- Albert [...]

Liminal Places and the Urban Camino

By my friend Tim Mathis

 Liminal Places and the Urban Camino » Mustard Seed Associates Creating the future one mustard seed at a time

The concept of liminality is important, I think, in that it points us to the truth that God strikes out at us from within the context of creation rather than through ‘inbreaking’ [...]

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