Divine Mercy Sunday – An Echo of Every Mass

Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe’…  ‘My Lord and my God!’ (Jn. 20:18)). Today is Divine...
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The Baptist and the Second Sunday of Advent

Angelus, Second Sunday of Advent, 7 December 2003 1. "Prepare the way of the Lord, clear him a straight path" (Lk 3: 4). This invitation of...

Herod, The Baptist and Conformity to the World

While I was away, relishing the world God has created (see my last post), we celebrated the memorial of the beheading of Saint John...

Saint Caecelia, and What Church Music Should Be

Today is the feast of Saint Caecelia, a young virgin martyr in Rome, put to death either in the late second or early third...

Saint Bonaventure: Contemplatio in Actione

Who is this saint, Bonaventure of Bagnoregio, whose feast collect aptly describes him as a man of great learning and having the ardor of … charity? Undoubtedly,...

Systemic Blindness

How can you fight something you cannot see properly?—An Officer in Training with Canadian Armed Forces  As Canada languishes in this protracted period of medical...

Why War?

As the credits after the film roll by, another army appears—of technicians, musicians, stunt men, cinematographers in England, France, Holland and the United States—active...

Pope Benedict and Martha’s Way

BENEDICT XVI ANGELUS Courtyard of the Papal Residence, Castel Gandolfo Sunday, 18 July 2010   Dear Brothers and Sisters, We are now in the heart of summer, at least in...

A Grandmother and a Bishop

When Bishop Guy Desrochers C.Ss.R. was consecrated as the Bishop of Pembroke Diocese in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec, he brought with him a...

Easter Sunday: O Sacred Banquet in which Christ is Received!

Christ our Passover has been sacrificed, alleluia; therefore let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread of purity and truth, alleluia, alleluia (Communion...