January 2024 papal prayer intention: for the gift of diversity in the Church
January 02, 2024
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CWN Editor's Note: The Pope’s January prayer intention, disseminated by the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer), is “that the Spirit help us recognize the gift of different charisms within the Christian community, and to discover the richness of different ritual traditions in the heart of the Catholic Church.”
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Posted by: Randal Mandock -
Jan. 02, 2024 1:53 PM ET USA
Wouldn't it be great if the Church's oldest ritual tradition, dating in its essence back to the Apostolic Age, would once again be allowed to flourish and grow everywhere it is celebrated? Quoting Fr. John Coventry in "The Breaking of Bread: A Short History of the Mass": "This is the Mass which Augustine offered on the shores of Africa in the fourth century, as it is the Mass which Xavier carried in the sixteenth century to the shores of Japan." Why must this be denied the young who flock to it?
