Theologienne

A divinity student blogs her faithful, progressive Catholicism.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

No Church politics without a prayer break

To answer the question of when does dissent become not enough: maybe at the point when the Catholic Church no longer holds anything uniquely holy for an individual, she would be better off seeking God somewhere else. The beliefs and practices of the Church mean more to me than anything else going at the moment. In these beliefs and these prayers I hope always to find common ground with those of different opinions.

Here is a beautiful eleventh-century devotional,
The Great Mary Litany:

Purple rose of the land of Israel,
O flowering like a palm,
O fruitful like the olive tree,
Light of Nazareth,
Glory of Jerusalem,
Beauty of the world . . .

pray for us and for those we love.

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