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In a Hurry to Get Things Done: The Gospel of Saint Mark
Saint Mark, writer of the Gospel and first bishop of Alexandria, was the missionary companion and amanuensis of Saint Peter, the first pope. The...
Aliens, Eliot and Christ
I met an alien today. If you humour me for a few moments, Iāll explain. It isnāt one of the aliens that appeared in...
Pope Benedict and Saint Anselm
BENEDICT XVI
GENERAL AUDIENCE
Paul VI Audience Hall
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Saint Anselm
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
The Benedictine Abbey of Sant'Anselmo is located on the Aventine Hill...
Third Sunday of Easter: Growing in Love of the Lord
Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you (Jn. 21:17). ā§¾
The Easter Season is a privileged time of liturgical catechesis or instruction...
Editor's Corner
Saints Chanel and Montfort
On this 28th of April we celebrate two Saints:Ā Saint Peter Chanel (+1841) who evangelized the island of Futuna in the South Pacific - the...
Our Lady’s Good Counsel
Our Lady of Good Counsel - Mater Boni Consilii - which is celebrated on this 26th of April, is one of the many titles...
Subito Santo? Quo Vadis, Purgatorio?
Pope Francis died on April 21st last year - which seems a different era. We commend his soul to God, praying for him, not...
Weekly Feature
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold your soul to the devil as sorcerers do who practice black magic, and even if you are a heretic as obstinate as a devil, sooner or later you will be converted and will amend your life and will save your soul, if-and mark well what I say-if you say the Holy Rosary devoutly every day until death for the purpose of knowing the truth and obtaining contrition and pardon for your sins. (Saint Louis de Montfort, +1716)
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NOTA IN BREVIS
Breaking a 26 Mile Barrier
Well, some thought it couldn't be done, but Sabastian Sawe and Yomif Kejelcha broke the two-hour barrier of the marathon, a 26 mile race of grit and endurance:
Kenyaās Sabastian Sawe becomes FIRST person EVER to run a marathon UNDER 2 HOURS with London Marathon time 1:59:30 Yomif Kejelcha from...
Prima Vera Verily Arriving
Spring is slowly, but I hope surely, arriving here where I live, which happens to be near a lake called Kamaniskeg (an Indigenous name meaning 'shining water). It doesn't' shine much during the winter, and here is the lake as it thawed last week, the ice sublimating into eerie...
Chasing Rubber Balls Seems to Cost a Lot
$624 million. That's the apparent tally for hosting the portion of the World Cup games to be held in Vancouver this summer - seven matches, which comes to just under $90 million per game.
We've written before about the excesses of professional sports, the bloated salaries, the insane hype and...
Lent
Third Sunday of Easter: Growing in Love of the Lord
Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you (Jn. 21:17). ā§¾
The Easter Season is a privileged time of liturgical catechesis or instruction...
Good Friday and Suffering
Evil and pain is always a mystery, that whole mysterium iniquitatis, of which Saint Paul writes (2 Thess 2:7). In 1984, Pope Saint John...
Your Easter Prayer
Happy Easter Lord Jesus Christ.
It's Easter day and we smile
In the Lord's in gentle light and
His tomb is bare the stone is rolled
A story...
An Ancient Homily for Holy Saturday
The time between Good Friday and Easter Sunday is one of waiting, in silence, as the world wonders - anticipates - what will happen,...
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...
Pope Benedict’s Last Holy Thursday Homily
MASS OF THE LORD'S SUPPER
HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
Basilica of St John Lateran
Holy Thursday, 5 April 2012
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Dear Brothers and Sisters!
Holy Thursday is...
Pope Saint John Paul II’s Last Passion Sunday
(This is the last of Pope Saint John Paul II's Passion-Palm Sunday homilies, given in 2004, before his own passion and death the following...
I Am the Resurrection and the Life: Fifth Sunday and Passiontide
āI am the resurrection and the lifeā¦Do you believe thisā? (Jn. 11:25-26).
The fifth Sunday in Lent marks the beginning of Passiontide. We will now...
Fourth Sunday of Lent: Siloam and Spiritual Blindness
Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light ā for the fruit of the light...
Third Sunday of Lent: Thirsting for the True Water of Life
āGive me a drinkā (Jn. 4:7).
The conversation of Our Lord and the Samaritan woman revolves around the gift of water. This request is presented...
Second Sunday of Lent, and Seeing Beyond Our Eyes
Are old people wise? Have they learned anything from experience? Or are they all curmudgeons, continually grumbling about the young generation and contrasting it...
First Sunday of Lent: Purified and Perfected by Penance
After Jesus was baptized, the Spirit drove him out into the wilderness. He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by
Satan (Mk. 1:12).
On...
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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 couldnāt 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 Peterās admonition to āAlways 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 reverenceā (1 Peter 3:15).
