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...
The Universal Search for Affection – Looking For Love in Some of the Wrong...
It probably begins in utero when hearing awareness first develops. The baby inside, safe and wet and warm, hears the noises of activity nearby,...
The Grace of Divine Mercy
On Sunday 24 April 2022, the Second Sunday of Easter, we celebrate the Divine Mercy Sunday. During the 1930’s St Maria Faustina Kowalska received...
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...
Science and Religion: Natural Enemies, or Best Friends Forever?
For Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth century mathematician and scientist, faith in God is the most necessary and therefore the most reasonable thing in the...
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....
Bach’s Two Passions
A blessed and grace-filled Passion/Palm Sunday to all our readers. Johann Sebastian Bach, according to sources, wrote five 'Passions', orchestral chorales based the final...
Mater Dolorosa: Our Lady of Sorrows
(In the calendar of the usus antiquior, today, the Friday before Holy Week, is the memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows. In the revisions...
