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Washington D.C., Nov 21, 2016 / 12:25 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- If you are itching to welcome in the yuletide with Christmas carols, a new album released by the friars of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. might just be the holiday tune you’ve been searching for.Good Christian Men, Rejoice! from Blackfriars Media on Vimeo.From traditional classics such as Away in a Manger, Silent Night, and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, the Dominicans of the Eastern Province have just released their Christmas album Christ Was Born to Save, available on CD or for digital download on iTunes.“All the music on this album flows from our prayerful contemplation of this great mystery: that God became man to save us from ourselves, and make us more like him,” wrote Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP in a statement from the Dominican Foundation.The Dominican House of Studies isn’t new to the music business – they have produced three other albums over the years, including In Medio...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Luke Michael Davies, courtesy Buckfast Abbey Media StudiosBy Simon CaldwellBUCKFAST, England (CNS) -- The hairshirt worn by St. Thomas More as he contemplated a martyr's death in the Towerof London has been enshrined for public veneration. The folded garment made fromgoat's hair was encased above an altar in Buckfast Abbey, a Benedictinemonastery in southwest England.St. Thomas, a former lord chancellorof England, wore the shirt while he was incarcerated in the Bell Tower of the Towerof London while awaiting execution for opposing the Protestant reforms of KingHenry VIII.He was beheaded July 6, 1535,after telling a crowd gathered on London's Tower Hill that he was "alwaysthe king's good servant, but God's first."Benedictine Abbot DavidCharlesworth told Catholic News Service Nov. 21 that the shirt had not beenshown in public before.He said that although the shirtwas a secondary relic, he believed it was of greater significance than a bodypart, or primary relic, becau...
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IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Cindy WoodenVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Acknowledging and sharing God'smercy is a permanent part of the Christian life, so initiatives undertakenduring the special Year of Mercy must continue, Pope Francis said."Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the lifeof the church," the pope wrote in an apostolic letter, "Misericordiaet Misera," ("Mercy and Misery"), which he signed Nov. 20 at theend of the Year of Mercy. The Vatican released the text the next day.The Catholic Church's focus on God's mercy must continuewith individual acts of kindness, assistance to the poor and, particularly,with encouraging Catholics to participate in the sacrament of reconciliationand making it easier for them to do so, the pope wrote.In his letter, Pope Francis said he formally was givingall priests permanent permission to grant absolution to those who confess tohaving procured an abortion. While many bishops around the world, and almostall bishops in the United States, routinely g...
