Tuesday, December 16, 2025

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Dear friends, may no adversity paralyze you. Be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness. The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so...

Pope Benedict XVI, Requiescat in Pace

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (1927 - 2022) died this morning, at 95 years old, at 9:34 Rome time, in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae monastery at the Vatican, on the vigil of the...

May the silence of Nazareth teach us recollection, inwardness, the disposition to listen to good inspirations and the teachings of true masters. May it teach us the need for and the value of preparation,...

I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace. (Saint Thomas a Becket, +1170)

Protecting Holy Innocents in Malta

On the liturgical feast of the Holy Innocents, the Church honours the first martyrs who gave their lives for our Lord Jesus, the children of Israel killed by King Herod in his quest to...

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio

J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, composed and performed in 1734-35, along with the Easter and Ascension Oratorios, is the most complex of the three, in six parts, for major commemorations during the Christmas season, from...

How great a gift of grace is here! To what merits of their own do the children owe this kind of victory? They cannot speak, yet they bear witness to Christ. They cannot use...

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God; all things were made through him, and without him was...

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