Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Good Shepherd Never Leaves His Flock

Has any one of you been a shepherd? or even seen one? Do shepherds exist in contemporary North America? Nevertheless, we know instinctively that...

Fourth Sunday and Obeying God’s Voice

‘My sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish’ (Jn. 10:27).  In...

Third Sunday of Easter: Growing in Love of the Lord

Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you (Jn. 21:17). ⧾ The Easter Season is a privileged time of liturgical catechesis or instruction...

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...

The Last Easter Vigil Homily of Pope Benedict XVI

EASTER VIGIL HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Saint Peter's Basilica Holy Saturday, 7 April 2012 Dear Brothers and Sisters, Easter is the feast of the new creation. Jesus...

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...

The Mystery of the Mass

‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me….This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood....

Gerard Manley Hopkins’ The Wreck of the Deutschland: Searching for God in Suffering

In The Wreck of the Deutschland, Gerard Manley Hopkins vividly presents the struggle of man to see the hand of God in the midst...

Fatima, Ukraine and Consecration

(The consecration of Russia, and whether or not it has been done, or done correctly, is a convoluted and controversial topic, upon which readers...

VIII Sunday and Seeking Holiness

The good man out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure produces evil;...