Fourteenth Sunday: The Inadequacy of Relativism and Random Chance
A theme common to Ezekiel and Saint Mark—the readings for the fourteenth Sunday, year B—is the necessity of faith . . . and, be...
Good Shepherd Sunday
Has any one of you ever been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively...
Second Sunday of Lent: Our Transfigured and Suffering Lord
He will transform the body of our humiliation that it may be conformed to the body of his glory, by the power that also...
Call No Man Father…Including Saint Joseph?
One of the age-old objections that Protestants have to the Catholic priesthood is known as the “Call No Man Father” Argument, which runs something...
The Miracle on Assumption Day
Victory in battle does not depend on who has the largest army; it is the Lord's power that determines the outcome (1 Maccabaeus 3:9)
Presumably...
Conformity to God, Not To the World
The godless say, ‘let us wait for the righteous one, who makes life inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; who reproaches us for...
Second Sunday of Lent: The Transfiguration
‘This is my Son, the Beloved; listen to him!’ (Mk. 9:7)
On the second Sunday in Lent we always read the Gospel of the Transfiguration...
Fifteenth Sunday: Applying the Parables
Then the disciples came and asked Jesus, ‘Why do you speak to them in parables?’ He answered, ‘To you it has been given to...
Passion Sunday: The Rending of the Veil
While the sun’s light failed…the curtain of the temple was torn in two (Lk.23:45).
Palm Sunday begins our observance of Holy Week, the Week of...
An Easter Hymn: Ad cenam Agni providi
Ad cenam Agni providi, stolis salutis candidi,
post transitum maris Rubri, Christo canamus principi.
Cuius corpus sanctissimum, in ara crucis torridum,
sed et cruorem roseum, gustando Dei...