Category: AllSaints

  • All Saints – who are Israel

    All Saints – who are Israel

    As a country, the US is deeply formed (or deformed) by dispensationalist ideology. Counteracting this is the Church’s teaching that the Church is Israel.

  • Vlog on All Saints

    Vlog on All Saints

    A video recorded in my Mom’s kitchen cuz…

  • All Saints: the Body of Messiah

    All Saints: the Body of Messiah

    The Readings for the Solemnity of theBody and Blood of Christ The Readings for the Sunday of All Saints So Jesus said to them, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day. Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the…

  • Mystical Evolution

    Mystical Evolution

    The Daily Office Propers for the Dominican Order contain some very interesting texts, indeed. Yesterday was the feast of All Saints of the Order of Preachers. I found this reading as the 4th or 5th alternate for the Office of Readings: From the Mystical Evolution of our brother, John Arintero. “Through new saints and prophets…

  • Et Cetera, Et Cetera

    The Readings for the Solemnity of All the Saints Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 1 John 3:1-3 Matthew 5:1-12 Vidi turbam magnam, quam dinumerare nemo poterat, ex omnibus gentibus, et tribubus, et populis, et linguis : stantes ante thronum, et in conspectu Agni, amicti stolis albis, et palmae in manibus eorum :I had a vision of a…

  • The Mask of Halloween

    NB: I edit and repost this essay most every year, I know. Archive has this going back to at least 2006, although it says there that I was reposting it again, so, at least 2005? Anyway, it’s still good. On the Hill of Tara, seat of the High Kings of Ireland, there is a mound…

  • Kingdomtide: The All Saints Project

    Tomorrow, 25 October, is the Sunday of Christ the King in the Pre-Vatican II Ordo – the “Extraordinary Form” – for the Roman Church and also in the Antiochian Western Rite Vicariate, which last also uses the older calendar as well.  On the Novos Ordo calendar this feast is the last Sunday before Advent starts,…