It is now the dead of night. As we contemplate Christ dead on the Cross, our thoughts turn to the countless injustices and sufferings which prolong his passion in every part of the world....
I received a note this morning from one of my students, participating in our 'distance ed' program - and quite a distance, all the way out to the shores of Newfoundland. He asked for...
There can be no Eucharist without the priesthood, just as there can be no priesthood without the Eucharist...There is a particular interplay between the Eucharist and the priesthood, an interplay which goes back to...
What a mistake those who do not hope make! Judas made a huge blunder the day in which he sold Christ for 30 denarii, but he made an even bigger one when he thought...
A blessed and grace-filled Passion/Palm Sunday to all our readers. Johann Sebastian Bach, according to sources, wrote five 'Passions', orchestral chorales based the final days of the life of Christ, but only two have...
Let us run to accompany him as he hastens towards his passion, and imitate those who met him then, not by covering his path with garments, olive branches or palms, but by doing all...
(In the calendar of the usus antiquior, today, the Friday before Holy Week, is the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. In the revisions of the novus ordo, it is on September 15th, the...
Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water (Saint Jean-Baptise de la Salle, +1719)