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| The holy angels, especially our Guardian Angels, are involved in every aspect of our spiritual lives. "From its beginning to death human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession" (CCC 336). The Opus Angelorum has been publishing for many years spiritual meditations considering different aspects of the spiritual life lived in union and collaboration with the holy angels. |
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Vatican II and the Sacred Liturgy:
Renewing the Faith of the Church
 The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the first of the four major documents of Vatican II, begins with the words "Sacrosanctum Concilium", this Sacred Council, and accordingly lays out the four general aims of the entire Council: First and foremost, the Council "desires to impart an ever increasing vigor to the Christian life of the faithful" (Sacrosanctum Concilium – hereafter, SC – 1). This aim, the renewal of the life of faith, was the "simplest and most fundamental lesson of the Council: namely, that Christianity in its essence consists of faith in God which is Trinitarian Love, and in a personal and communal encounter with Christ who orients and gives meaning to life" (Benedict XVI, Oct. 10, 2012). Through a deeper understanding and reflection on herself, her teachings, her liturgy and external practices, the Church through the Council wanted to renew the faith of the Church, that all might "rediscover the faith as a deep personal friendship with the goodness of Jesus Christ" (Benedict XVI, June 17, 2012) as opposed to a faith which had become merely a habit or external practice. read more...
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"Lord, increase our Faith!"
 As we prepare for the beginning of the Year of Faith in October, we want to reflect briefly on the theological virtue of faith. We find a definition of faith in the letter to the Hebrews: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the proof of things not seen" (Heb 11:1). "Substance" has here the sense of the first beginnings of a thing. In this sense, faith contains the beginnings of the knowledge of God we will one day enjoy fully in heaven, when we shall "see Him as He is" (1 Jn 3:2). Through faith livened by hope and charity, we come into a real communion with God here and now; it is the "first fruits" of the Beatific Vision of heaven, the "pledge" of future glory. In Christ, God became present to us in a new and real way. read more...
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Jesus Christ
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The Priesthood
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| Blessed Virgin Mary |
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| Holy Angels |
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| The Angel of Fatima |
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| Consecration to the Angels |
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| Eucharist and Adoration |
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| Mystagogical Catechesis on the Liturgy |
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| Growth in Holiness |
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| The Cross and the Passion |
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| Four Fundamental Directions |
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| Seven Characteristics |
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| Saints |
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| The Our Father |
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| Christmas and the Mystery of the Incarnation |
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