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	<title>Reditus: A Chronicle of Aesthetic Christianity &#187; Virgin Mary</title>
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		<title>The Virgin as Philosopher&#8217;s Stone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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I will propose you a similitude of gold. The ethereal heaven was shut from all men, so that all men should descend to the infernal seats, and be there perpetually detained. But Jesus Christ opened the gate of the ethereal Olympus, and has now unlocked the kingdoms of Pluto, that the souls may be taken [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4905&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Virgin in a tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Some personal notes about apparitions
On June 17, 1992 Anita Mendoza Contreras claimed to have had a spiritual vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe. She had been feeling depressed that day when she visited the oak grove and “had been sitting at the picnic table under the tree praying. A wind came up, and Mendoza looked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4722&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My latest article for Inside Catholic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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On Mary, her critics, and Catholic culture
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		<title>Stuff from around the Internet</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/stuff-from-around-the-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Found at this site. No real comment.

No offense intended to Father, but really, since when have the &#8220;average Catholic laity&#8221; been obsessed with the meaning of life questions? And while I don&#8217;t really agree with the Spaniard, sometimes I can sympathize with the agnostic soundman&#8217;s condescension: &#8220;you poor naive Americans&#8221;. [Remember, I am just as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4535&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>La Asunción de Maria</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/08/15/la-asuncion-de-maria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 10:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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En turquesadas nubes y celajes
están en los alcázares impirios
con blancas hachas y con blancos cirios
del sacro Dios los soberanos pajes. 
Humean de mil suertes y linajes
entre amaranto y plateados lirios
inciensos indios y pebetes sirios
sobre alfombras de lazos y follajes. 
Por manto el Sol, la Luna por chapines,
llegó la Virgen a la impiria sala,
visita que esperaba [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=4032&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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De una Virgen hermosa
celos tiene el sol,
porque vio en sus brazos
otro sol mayor.
Cuando del Oriente
salió el sol dorado,
y otro sol helado
miró tan ardiente,
quitó de la frente
la corona bella,
y a los pies de la estrella
su lumbre adoró,
porque vio en sus brazos
otro sol mayor.
«Hermosa María,
dice el sol vencido,
de vos ha nacido
el sol que podía
dar al mundo el [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3757&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>La Virgen de la Soledad</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/la-virgen-de-la-soledad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Virgen de la Soledad:
rendido de gozos vanos,
en las rosas de tus manos
se ha muerto mi voluntad.
Cruzadas con humildad
en tu pecho sin aliento,
la mañana del portento,
tus manos fueron, Señora,
la primer cruz redentora:
la cruz del sometimiento.
Como tú te sometiste,
someterme yo quería:
para ir haciendo la vía
con sol claro o noche triste.
Ejemplo santo nos diste
cuando, en la tarde deicida,
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		<title>Real Kneeling Theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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A Los Angeles Times story about pilgrims to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe.   See the video as well.
I have always been skeptical of all talk of an &#8220;interior life&#8221; or faith as an abstract idea. This for me is far more familiar and far more real.
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		<title>¡Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 04:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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		<title>Maria Desatadora</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Virgem Maria, Mãe do belo amor, Mãe que jamais deixa de vir em socorro a um filho aflito, Mãe cujas as mãos não param nunca de servir seus amados filhos, pois são movidas pelo amor divino e a imensa misericórdia que existem em teu coração, volta o teu olhar compassivo sobre mim e vê o [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=1681&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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