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In Caelo et in Terra

The Catholic Church in the Netherlands viewed from within

About the author

I am Mark de Vries, a 38-year-old lay Catholic from Groningen, the Netherlands, and happily married since March of 2017. I am interested in the Catholic faith and the Church, which is what this blog is for. Other interests include, history, language and a combination of these. I also enjoy reading, drawing, cycling, photography and a good movie or series.

For a personal account about my reasons for becoming and remaining Catholic, go read my story: Why am I Catholic?

About this blog

In this blog I wish to provide accurate information on current affairs in the Church and her relation with society. It is important for Catholics to have knowledge about their own faith and Church, especially since these are frequently misrepresented in many places. With this blog I want to inform the wider world of what is going on in the Church in the Netherlands.

I will also, semi-regularly, offer some personal thoughts and reflections on faith, doctrine and Scripture. Sometimes there will also be stories and photos of Catholic events I attend.

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People who want to contact me with questions or information regarding my blog or other Catholic social media projects, can do so via Twitter (see below) or via mr.hofer@gmail.com

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In Caelo et in Terra by Mark de Vries is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

The above means that I have the right to be recognised as the author of both the original blog posts, as well as any translations I make. Everyone is free to share my content, but with credit in the form of my name or a link to my blog.

Blog and media

Over the years, my blog posts have been picked up by various other blogs, websites and media outlets.

A complete list would be prohibitively long, so I'll limit myself to mentioning The Anchoress, Anton de Wit, Bisdom Haarlem-Amsterdam, The Break/SQPN, Catholic Culture, The Catholic Herald, EWTN, Fr. Ray Blake's Blog, Fr. Z's Blog, The Hermeneutic of Continuity, Katholiek Gezin, Katholiek.nl, National Catholic Register, National Catholic Reporter, New Liturgical Movement, Reformatorisch Dagblad, The Remnant, RKS Ariëns, Rorate Caeli, The Spectator, Vatican Insider, Voorhof and Whispers in the Loggia.

All links to, quotations of and use as source material of my blog posts is greatly appreciated. It's what I blog for: to further awareness and knowledge in a positive critical spirit. Credits are equally liked, of course.

Blog posts have also been used as sources for various Wikipedia articles, among them those on Archbishop Pierre-Marie Carré, Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Archbishop Sergio Utleg and Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki.

Sancta Maria, hortus conclusus, ora pro nobis!

Sancte Paschal Baylon, ora pro nobis!

Pope Francis

Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province of Rome, Sovereign of the Vatican City State, Servant of the Servants of God

Bishop Ron van den Hout


Bishop of Groningen-Leeuwarden

Willem Cardinal Eijk

Cardinal-Priest of San Callisto, Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht

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But, since time is money, as they say, I am most certainly open to donations from readers who enjoy my writings or who agree with me that it communicating the faith and the news that directly affects us as Catholics, is a good thing.

Via the button you may contribute any amount you see fit to the Paypal account of this blog. The donations will be used for further development of this blog or other goals associated with communicating the faith and the news of the Church.

Links – a temporary list

As the list of relevant and interesting links from this blog to other blogs and websites undergoes a major overhaul, a temporary, and really rather limited, list will serve as a placeholder here;

Arsacal – Bishop Jan Hendriks
Besloten Tuin
Broodje Paap
Catholic Herald
Domradio
Father Z’s blog
Groninganus
Katholiek Nieuwsblad
New Advent
Standing on My Head
The Vatican
Whispers in the Loggia

Zenit

Local bishops’ conferences

Catho.be – Portail francophone de l'Église catholique en Belgique
Conferentia Episcopalia Scandiæ
Deutsche Bischofskonferenz
Kerknet – De website van de Kerk in Vlaanderen
RKKerk – Website van de R-K Kerk in Nederland

Local dioceses

Archdiocese of Bamberg
Archdiocese of Berlin
Archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau
Archdiocese of Hamburg
Archdiocese of Köln
Archdiocese of Luxembourg
Archdiocese of München und Freising
Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels
Archdiocese of Paderborn
Archdiocese of Utrecht
Diocese of 's Hertogenbosch
Diocese of Aachen
Diocese of Antwerpen
Diocese of Augsburg
Diocese of Breda
Diocese of Bruges
Diocese of Dresden–Meißen
Diocese of Eichstätt
Diocese of Erfurt
Diocese of Essen
Diocese of Fulda
Diocese of Görlitz
Diocese of Ghent
Diocese of Groningen-Leeuwarden
Diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam
Diocese of Hasselt
Diocese of Hildesheim
Diocese of København
Diocese of Limburg
Diocese of Magdeburg
Diocese of Mainz
Diocese of Münster
Diocese of Oslo
Diocese of Osnabrück
Diocese of Passau
Diocese of Regensburg
Diocese of Reykjavík
Diocese of Roermond
Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Diocese of Rotterdam
Diocese of Speyer
Diocese of Stockholm
Diocese of Trier
Diocese of Würzburg
Territorial Prelature of Tromsø
Territorial Prelature of Trondheim

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Day: March 16, 2014

Anima Christi

Goosebumps at Mass this morning as the choir sang the Anima Christi:

Posted on March 16, 2014Categories Catholic Church in the NetherlandsTags anima christi, mass, music1 Comment on Anima Christi
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