The Second Sunday of Lent: The Wonder of the Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is celebrated twice in the Church’s liturgy: on the second Sunday of Lent but also on 6 August. The latter date is...
Moral Meltdown: A Magisterial View of the Morality of Embryo Adoption
Perusing the website of Snowflakes, an American adoption agency, the viewer is presented with myriad photos of respectable, young-to-middle-aged couples radiantly embracing beautiful, healthy,...
Compassion is not cynical: a reply to David Bentley Hart on Annulment and Divorce
David Bentley Hart has recently suggested that the Eastern Orthodox practice of divorce is more coherent and compassionate than the Catholic practice of annulment.
The...
The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ: From the Visions of Anne Catherine...
In this account of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich’s visions regarding the Last Supper, trial, scourging, carrying of the Cross, crucifixion, death and resurrection of...
The Spirituality of Lent and the Science of the Cross
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
Frost and Fire: A Lenten Poem
To have the soul of a poet Lord,
To have one that feels to the depths.
The gaping wide hole in my soul Lord
The sadness and...
Doors of Victory
And there was a great battle in heaven; Michael and his angels fought with the dragon, and the dragon fought, and his angels. And...
Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Vatican Basilica
Ash Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Venerable Brethren,
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin a new Lenten journey, a...
The Lenten Fast for Today’s Catholic
Can there be a shorter account of Our Lord’s forty days in the desert than the one from Saint Mark? It omits not only...
Be Ye Perfect: The Seventh Sunday and Lent
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). ⧾
At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but...
