Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Memory
As we begin the Lenten pilgrimage on this first Sunday, a fitting help to our deovtion is Allegri's Miserere, his unsurpassed musical setting of...
Humility and the First Sunday of Lent
When the devil had finished every test, he departed from him until an opportune time (Lk. 4:13). ⧾
On Ash Wednesday we began our observance...
What Is Holiness?
(In light of today's Gospel, on the calling of Levi, and our Lord eating with 'tax collectors and sinners', here are some fitting words...
The Eucharist Is the Best of the Past and the Best of the Future:...
(This sermon by Rev. Msgr. Vincent Nicholas Foy was preached at the evening Mass a week before Ash Wednesday that year, on Sunday, February...
Eliot’s Ash Wednesday
T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly,...
Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust…Pope Benedict and Ash Wednesday
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Ash Wednesday
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter...
Reaping the Rotten Fruits of Relativism
Our nation is in great turmoil; and those who should provide us with moral leadership are either completely silent or dithering as they assess...
Is the Resurrection Believable?
(As a pre-Lenten meditation on this Eighth Sunday, here is an apologia from Carl Sundell on the truth of the Resurrection of Our Lord...
The Hidden Life of Blessed Maria Pisani
February 25th is the liturgical memorial of Blessed Maria Adeodata Pisani. This Italian born Benedictine nun surely has left a great legacy that needs...
Why the Deuterocanon is Scripture
(As we make our way through the Sirach in the readings for Mass, also called Ecclesiasticus, a deuterocanonical book in the canon, considered 'apocryphal'...