Thursday, January 15, 2026

An Approach to the Santa Legend

(One might have different views on the Santa legend, and whether or not to present (no pun intended) this story to children, as literal...

Thirty First Sunday: Mercy Sought, Mercy Bestowed

For the Son of Man has come to seek and save what was lost. (Lk. 19:10) ⧾ The conversion of Zacchaeus may be said to...

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...

Divine Mercy Sunday

‘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 Low...

Time, Hope and the First Sunday of Advent

Be alert at all times, praying that you may have the strength…to stand before the Son of Man (Lk.21: 36). ⧾ The first Sunday of...

The Hundred Year War on the Family

Mere days after Our Lady’s final apparition at Fatima on October 13, 1917, the Bolsheviks took power over Russia and quickly established a totalitarian...

Christianity, Islam and Atheism

The Arab world before Mohamed was dominated by a polytheism that was slowly evolving toward monotheism. That polytheism included the supreme god among all...

Every Life’s Sacred, or None Are

Jesus provides us with a motive for acting, viz., the love of God, which in practical terms produces a love of our neighbours. The...

Knowing the Father, the Way to Life

Today’s Gospel contains an intriguing statement: “No one knows the Son except the Father; and no one knows the Father except the Son, and...

Mother Teresa’s Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Poorest of the Poor

Students have now flocked to university, where they will be subjected to four years of indoctrination in various aspects of modernism, for want of...