Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI Vatican Basilica Ash Wednesday, 13 February 2013   Venerable Brethren, Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, Ash Wednesday, we begin a new Lenten journey, a...

The Lenten Fast for Today’s Catholic

Can there be a shorter account of Our Lord’s forty days in the desert than the one from Saint Mark? It omits not only...

Be Ye Perfect: The Seventh Sunday and Lent

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Mt. 5:38). ⧾ At face value, these words appear to demand the impossible of us; but...

Seventh Sunday Quodlibetal

We moderns have been indoctrinated to regard the Middle Ages as a time of superstition and cruelty, but in fact they were quite wonderful....

Sixth Sunday and the Keeping of the Law

If you choose, you can keep the commandments, and they will save you… has not commanded anyone to be wicked, and He has...

The Suffering of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

February 9th marks the anniversary of the death of Bl. Anne Catherine Emmerich in 1824.  An Augustinian nun, she was highly favoured by God...

Emotions in Prayer

There are so many different approaches to prayer, which may, following Saint Teresa of Avila, be described as 'conversation with God'. I recently attended...

The Mills of God Grind Slowly

We are currently witnessing numerous calamities in the order of nature: earthquakes, droughts, floods, and disasters which cause the unforeseen death of thousands of...

The Fading of the Feminist Fad

I’m a nasty woman,” Ashley Judd 2017 Three years ago – the Saturday after Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration in Washington – a million women gathered...

Blessed Candles, Holy Families

In the past year, the Good Lord has willed that some serious challenges beset my family, challenges which have brought me to my knees...