Last night I happened upon a healing Mass in the District of Columbia. How’s that for Providential? Talk about answering a call. God sure is timely. “We are all cracked and broken individuals. We are all broken in one way or another,” the main celebrant said during the homily. That’s not psychobabble when said before exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. More like “wisdom from above.” And there were college kids from George Washington University, submitting to the power of prayer,... Read more
“is what holds the life together.” Read more
Cardinal Dolan: “As grateful as I am for being a Cardinal, I really want to be a saint,”Cardinal Dolan said to the media after the Feb. 18 ceremony. “I mean that, and I’ve got a long way to go but it is all about holiness, it is all about friendship with Jesus and it is all about being a saint. And that’s what I want to be.” Cardinal Dolan said he was particularly moved by the announcement of two new... Read more
A Columbia U grad turned Dominican brother writing about Sherlock Holmes and the Theology of the Body. Read more
Cardinal Dolan writes from Rome: Early in the morning, I walk down the Janiculum Hill – where I stay at the North American College – to Saint Peter’s Basilica, there to go to confession and then to celebrate Mass. Two powerful sacraments, Eucharist and Reconciliation, constants of our spiritual life, at the heart of the church, near the tomb of Saint Peter. I don’t want you to think that I only approach confession when I’m in Rome! At home with you in... Read more
A profile of a good, holy priest in the New York Times. If you wish he were your parish priest, go ahead and get lost in a website. Read more
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Jennifer Fulwiler offers a Lenten challenge: Electric light gives us the illusion of having control over our lives, and I found going without it to be a stunning reminder of our littleness and powerlessness in the grand scheme of things. Sounds hard. And good! Read more
No longer shall the sun be your light by day, nor the brightness of the moon shine upon you at night. The Lord shall be your light forever. (Is 60,19). Courtesy of DailyGospel.org Read more
The Mass is … the sacred vehicle where his word is continually preached, and where his very Body and Blood is given to his people to nourish and to strengthen their souls, which is what this is all about. It’s the Incarnate Word, where eternity and timeliness come together, the beyond and the here, the heavenly and the earthly; the above and the below are locked together in that one person of the Incarnate Word, and that continues in the... Read more
Kathryn Lopez
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