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Is the hymn Lạy Mẹ xin yên ủi about Our Lady of Perpetual Help?

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Kinh Điển: Kierkegaard và Tác Phẩm Một Trong Hai

Thế kỷ thứ 19 rất được học đường các môn văn và sử học tại Mỹ chú ý.  Lý do là thế kỷ đó có rất nhiều biến chuyển to lớn trong tư tưởng cũng như lịch sử phương Tây.  Vì nhiều biến chuyển này vẫn còn ảnh hưởng đến thời nay, nên hàn lâm Hoa Kỳ vẫn nghiên cứu và giảng dậy nhiều lớp về châu Âu trong thời kỳ này, hoặc ảnh hưởng châu Âu đến nơi khác, hay phản ứng từ nơi khác đến châu Âu.  

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My students on Christine de Pizan & Julian of Norwich & St. Perpetua

This student had done an art recreation of Julius Caesar for Great Books I during Fall 2021. This semester she recreated this painting of a late-medieval woman, reproduced on the cover of an Oxford’s World Classics edition of Revelations of Divine Love
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Vietnamese nationalism in a popular hymn about the Sacred Heart of Jesus

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From a devotional text published in 1934. The caption reads, “This is my Sacred Heart that loves humanity so much that it doesn’t refuse them anything.” The implication is that it is up to people to believe and petition the Sacred Heart for their needs.

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A nineteenth-century Vietnamese account of the Lourdes apparitions

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One of the later apparitions to Bernadette ~ pc lourdes-france.org

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Marian reparation in a Vietnamese hymn

I’d written a post about Năm Xưa Trên Cây Sồi [Years Ago on an Oak Tree], which has been, in my opinion, the most popular devotional Marian hymn in Vietnamese. This post is about a different hymn that happens to be about Our Lady of Fatima as well. Continue reading “Marian reparation in a Vietnamese hymn”

The 2019 biennial congress of Vietnamese priests in the U.S.

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The Vietnamese Catholic ethnic press reported widely on this congress but there is hardly anything in English. I am appreciative of Fr. Linh Hoang, OFM (Siena College), who attended the event and filed the write-up below along with the photos.

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Vietnamese Marianism in 1962

Last year I submitted an article on Vietnamese Marianism to a journal based in Asia, and the submission received split decisions from the anonymous reviewers. The comments, especially from the reviewer who found it problematic, were quite good. I am not an intellectual sadist or a glutton for punishment. But I’ll admit to feeling certain gladness when receiving a more critical or negative feedback from anonymous reviewers, including this one.

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Marianism under fire: the Trà Kiệu festival in May 1971

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