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St. Matthias, Apostle

February 24, 2010

Dearly beloved, we have entered the season of Lent, a time for solemnity, fasting, lamenting our sins, and meditating on the sufferings of our Lord Jesus. Yet today is the festival of St. Matthias, thus no weeping is allowed on this day, for it is a day of joy and gladness, when we remember the [...]

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Mortification and Matthias

February 24, 2010

He exhausted his body by mortification to make his spirit subject to the Crucified. -Clement of Alexandria, on St. Matthias (from Pius Parsch, The Church’s Year of Grace, vol. II, p377)

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"One of the men"

February 24, 2010

Happy St. Matthias day, dear reader. I’ve been looking over the second reading for this feast, from the Acts of the Apostles, 1:18-26. I was particularly struck by one very explicit reference to the parameters for choosing the successor to Judas: He is to be a witness to the resurrection, he is to have been [...]

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