Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Saint Juliana of Cornillon and the Institution of Corpus Christi

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Wednesday, 17 November 2010  Saint Juliana of Cornillon Dear Brothers and Sisters, This morning too I would like to introduce a female figure to you....

How Trinity Sunday Entered the Calendar

You may wonder how the Feast of the Holy Trinity came to be celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost. It was not always celebrated...

Be Ye Perfect: The Seventh Sunday and Lent

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). â§ľ At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but...

Good and Bad Fruit

Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019. No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each...

The God Peterson Evades

Jordan Peterson’s appearance on Jubilee’s viral YouTube episode, originally titled “1 Christian vs. 20 Atheists” and later changed to “Jordan Peterson vs. 20 Atheists,”...

St George Preca: the Apostle of God’s Redeeming Love

Today, Thursday 9 May 2024, every corner of the Maltese Islands resounds with great joy a cry of joy and hope. Today, we Maltese...

Henry Walpole and William Byrd

Tertullian’s oft-quoted phrase, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church,” immediately evokes scenes of the early Christians in the Roman...

Sympathetic Nature

MANY PASSAGES in Scripture, both the Old and the New Testaments, are disconcertingly violent, as in today’s Gospel: Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom...

The Shekinah, A Type of Saint Joseph

Perhaps you may be familiar with the Pillar of Cloud — which may be compared to a tornado — or the Pillar of Fire...

The Meaning of Christmas as Advent Draws to a Close

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 20 December 2006 The meaning of Christmas Dear Brothers and Sisters, "The Lord is close: come, let us adore him". With...