So a priest friend, to make a point for the Kingdom, put me on the spot tonight and asked what the Responsorial Psalm at Mass today (Sunday) was. I did not remember. And of course it was, of all psalms: Let my tongue be silenced, if I ever forget you! (Photo from Church of the [...]
Good morning this Saint Patrick’s Day! Giving thanks to God for the Holy Trinity!
Pope Benedict has given us great gifts in teaching about prayer. Take, for instance, his May 2011 catechesis on prayer and Jacob in the Old Testament. Late at night or Wednesday afternoon, we have much to learn here. “Our whole life is like this long night of battle and prayer that is meant to end in [...]
“My despised Jesus, nail this heart of mine to your feet, so that I may always remains there to love you and never leave you again.” — 11th Station, from Saint Alphonsus Liguori’s Way of the Cross
Not to be stuck on this past Sunday and its Gospel reading, but Fr. Robert Barron provides some essential focus: While sharing the aversion of using religion as a means to gain material wealth, I think a more fruitful way of understanding Christ’s action to cleanse the temple can be discerned in relation to Israel’s [...]
I do not know if there is a better way to be serious about just that than the Way of the Cross. Praying station to station. As I’ve mentioned, I recently prayed it in Jerusalem, on a cold, wet, snowy pre-dawn morning. We used Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s text. But you don’t have to be physically [...]
Yesterday was the Third Sunday in Lent. How quickly we pass from Ash Wednesday to the First Sunday in Lent and, well, here we are. The clock does keep ticking. And it’s not too late to have a holy Lent. Maybe you’ve given up booze or added a decade of the Rosary. Maybe not even [...]
You turn a corner and see a sign. “Holy Sepulchre.” And there it is. Right there. Right here. He died here. For us. Because of us. Because of me. By the time you make it in and up the stairs to Calvary, it’s all too appropriate that you would encounter His mother, her heart pierced. [...]
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