Sunday Musical Offering: Three Emmanuels
For our Sunday musical offering, three versions of the ancient Advent hymn, O Come, O Come Emmanuel, dating back 1200 years to monastic traditions...
The Long Hot Summer of 2018
On January 10, 1963, the Hon. A.S. Herlong Jr., a judge and Democratic congressman from Florida (1949-1969) read a document into the U.S. House...
Thought Control Totalitarianism, in Canada?
We here in the grand Dominion of Canada have passed some very bad laws of late, sadly during what should be an otherwise celebratory 150th...
In Times Like This, Structure is Especially Essential
In this time where the schools are shut down, business is shut down, we are living off of government handouts, Churches are closed indefinitely,...
A Reflection for Christmas: God, Truth and Love
As Christmas rolls around this year, try not to be swept up with the hoopla of consumerism and economic materialism. In our day and...
Saint Joseph, A Working Man
Saint Joseph has two 'feast' days in the universal Church, neither of which is technically a 'feast'. The first, on March 19th, is his...
The Case Against Pornography
But the snake said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! God knows well that when you eat of it your eyes will...
On the Jaws of Death and the Gates of Heaven
Dietrich von Hildebrand (1889-1977) was a Catholic convert, philosopher, and theologian whose deep thinking prepared him during his long life for fruitful meditations on...
Dishonest Wealth Made Honest
Twenty-fifth Sunday Per Annum (C) September 22, 2019.
You cannot serve God and wealth (Lk. 16:13).
At face value, it would seem that that the Gospel...
The Voice and the Dawn
“So he said, 'I am, as Isaiah prophesied: A voice of one that cries in the desert: Prepare a way for the Lord'” (Jn 1:23).
“He was...