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Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...


Pearl of Great Price
Aug 11, 20213 min read
Aug 9 Herman the Wonderworker of all Alaska
Today in 1970, a solemn liturgy at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral on Kodiak Island, Alaska, glorified St. Herman, as the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jun 6, 20218 min read
June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...


Pearl of Great Price
Apr 17, 20216 min read
Apr 18 St Peters Basilica, the biggest church in the world
Today we remember how the cornerstone was laid for St Peters Basilica on the Vatican Hill outside of Rome. We look at the Egyptian...


Pearl of Great Price
Apr 6, 20214 min read
Apr 6 Salt Lake Temple
Today we go back to 1893 and travel to Utah in North America and remember the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple . What is the theology...


Pearl of Great Price
Apr 3, 20213 min read
Apr 4 Easter Sunday
Today in the West, Christians celebrate Easter, the touchstone of the Christian Faith. In todays reflection we look at the boldness of...


Pearl of Great Price
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Mar 15 Cardinal Manning & Catholic Social Teaching
Today in 1875, Henry Edward Manning was made a cardinal at a consistory convoked by Pope Pius IX, and unusually for Cardinals in the...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 28 - Excommunicating an Emperor
Today we remember in 1077 the famous midwinter penitential Walk to Canossa by King Henry IV, the Holy Roman Emperor. Henry petitioned...


Pearl of Great Price
Jan 25, 20211 min read
Jan 6 - Building of Washington National Cathedral
Today we remember how in 1893 the Washington National Cathedral was chartered by congress and the charter was signed by President...
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