Tag archives for ancient Christianity

Why pray the hours?

Prayer | April 5, 2012
With God by the hour

When you read the scriptures, you not only learn about the content of prayer (contrition, thanksgiving, petition, etc.), but you also notice the discipline of it, the regularity of it. Both previously, Daniel and the Psalmist pray three times a…

Angels have we heard on high?

Theology | August 5, 2009
The Annunciation

Last Wednesday Pope Benedict talked a bit about the spill he took earlier in July and the broken wrist he suffered. “Unfortunately, my own guardian angel did not prevent my injury,” he said. The angel didn’t fall down on the…

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