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Pentecost and Witnessing to Truth
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good (1 Cor. 12:7).
Today, with joy and thanksgiving we celebrate the Solemnity...
Sunday Musical Offering: Veni Creator Spiritus!
On this Solemnity of Pentecost - and a blessed one to one and all -Â here is of one of most beautiful hymns in our...
Jim Hughes, Requiescat in Pace
As readers may know, Jim Hughes, the long-time and indomitable pro-life leader, went to his eternal reward on Monday, May 18th. He lived a...
Father Kapaun’s March Through the Valley of Death
Father Emil Kapaun was an army chaplain who died in this 23rd day of May in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea...
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Junipero Serra and Catholic California
During my time in the golden state, I was reading an old biography of Saint Junipero Serra by H.M. Finch. I must confess I...
Saint Rita’s Mission Impossible
We have it on good authority that nothing is impossible with God - or, as the Gabriel puts it, all things are possible with the...
EugĂšne de Mazenod’s Oblation
Fittingly, in this month of Mary, we celebrate on this May 21st Saint EugĂšne de Mazenod (+1861), the 19th century founder of the Missionaries...
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Saint John Paul II’s Pentecost
Homily of His Holiness John Paul II
Sunday, 31 May 1998, The Solemnity of Pentecost
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem:I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the Giver of life.
With the words of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, the Church proclaims her faith in the Paraclete; a faith that is...
Lindberg and Earhart’s Crossing the Rubicon
In one of those serendipities of history, this May 21st saw two first solo crossings of the Atlantic by air: First, by Charles Lindbergh in 1927, from New York to Le Bourget field outside Paris. Then, five years later, Amelia Earhart accomplished the same daring feat, touching down in...
Novena to the Holy Ghost, Fourth Day – The Gift of...
Fourth DayÂ
Thou, in toil are comfort sweet,Â
Pleasant coolness in the heat,
Solace in the midst of woe.
The Gift of Fortitude
By the gift of Fortitude the soul is strengthened against natural fear, and supported to the end in the performance of duty. Fortitude imparts to the will an impulse and...
Easter
Mothers’ Day
A Blessed Sixth Sunday of Easter to all our readers, which also happens to be the secular commemoration of Mothers' Day, which became widespread...
Fifth Sunday of Easter: Offering Diakonia
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, Godâs own people; in order that you may proclaim the mighty acts...
Fourth Sunday and Obeying the Good Shepherd
âMy sheep hear my voice. I know them and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perishâ (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 believeââŠÂ âMy Lord and my God!â (Jn. 20:18)).
Today is Divine...
In the Glorious Light of Easter, Alleluia!
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and your life is hidden...
Series
A Pilgrimage from Vienna to Rome
I decided to make a pilgrimage to Rome, prompted by the Jubilee year, and walking through the Holy Doors. But I couldnât just show up in Rome, so to make a pilgrimage of it.
Apologetics 101
Apologetics is the art of defending religious doctrines through systematic argumentation and discourse, making reference to both faith and reason as appropriate, in light of Saint Peterâs admonition to âAlways be prepared to make a defense to any one who calls you to account for the hope that is in you, yet do it with gentleness and reverenceâ (1 Peter 3:15).
