Featured

      Featured posts displayed on the Homepage

      Third Sunday and the Foolishness of the Cross

      For the message about the Cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power...

      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...

      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...

      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...

      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 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...

      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...

      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....

      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...

      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...