Speaking Christ's Language
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Thursday, December 23, 2010
When The Passion of the Christ was being made, I recall reading that the purest, closest-to-Christ’s Aramaic is spoken by a few tribes in Iraq.
Unfortunately violence in Iraq is endangering the language—but it’s being taught again at Oxford.
...a course in the ancient language drawing people from as far afield as Liverpool and London. There are now 56 people learning Aramaic at the university, including... READ MORE
Feast of St. Andrew
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Just me on Saturday, November 29, 2008
Do you pray the St. Andrew novena for Advent?
So-called because it starts on the feast of St. Andrew, which—sometimes, as is the case this year—coincides with the First Sunday of Advent?
The pious practice is to say it 15 times a day to receive a special grace, but I confess we don’t do that. We just say it together once as part of our family prayer during Advent.
I do think of it often during Advent and at other times during the year when I want to meditate on the mystery of the Incarnation. There’s something about the wording that helps me “enter in” to that mystery right away.
The version I have committed to memory runs: “Hail and Blessed be the hour and moment when the Son of God was born of the Most Pure Virgin Mary at midnight in Bethlehem in piercing cold. By that hour vouchsafe, O Lord, to hear my prayers, and grant my request through the merits of Our Savior Jesus Christ and of his Most Holy Mother, Amen.”
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