Christ’s Bearing the Pain of the World
For God created man for incorruption, and made him the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,...
The Cleansing Fire of Purgatory
Now He is God not of the dead, but of the living; for to Him all of them are alive. (Lk. 20:38)
As we approach...
Call No Man Father…Including Saint Joseph?
One of the age-old objections that Protestants have to the Catholic priesthood is known as the “Call No Man Father” Argument, which runs something...
13th Sunday: The experience of suffering
For God created man for incorruption, and made him the image of his own eternity, but through the devil’s envy death entered the world,...
The Gospel of Mark: The Multiplication of the Loaves
There are two multiplication of the loaves, which makes it evident that they are concerned with more than merely feeding the crowds. The first...
Transgender In-sanity
There is an ancient Indian fable of six blind men who meet an elephant. Each of them touches different parts of the elephant. One...
Apostles of Joy: J.R.R. Tolkien and St. Philip Neri
(Here be some thoughts from Kaleb Hammond the connection between J.R.R. Tolkien and the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, specifically the 'London Oratory', in...
The Holy Mass Part III: As Sacrifice and Heavenly Food, Not Therapeutic Pablum and...
This Sunday’s reflection is the third in a series of meditations on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, with specific references to the Ancient...
Mater Dei and Mary’s Role in Salvation
The shepherds went with haste to Bethlehem and found Mary and Joseph and the Child lying in a manger (Lk. 2:16).⧾
On this the last...
Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
(I thought a re-post of these thoughts from nearly five years ago now (!) was a propos, given our current Alice-in-Wonderland-cum-1984 world, making our...
