Tuesday after Trinity Sunday
The history of the blessed Eucharist is one with that of the Church herself: the liturgical usages, which have varied in the celebration of the most august of all the Sacraments, […]
The history of the blessed Eucharist is one with that of the Church herself: the liturgical usages, which have varied in the celebration of the most august of all the Sacraments, […]
Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of thy faithful, and enkindle within them the fire of thy love. The great day, which consummates the work that God had undertaken […]
The blessing given by our Lord as he ascended into heaven has revealed its power in the most distant pagan lands, and during these days the liturgical cycle bears witness to […]
For the third time, holy Church marshals her children in procession, and makes a solemn appeal to the divine mercy. Let us follow her sacred standard, and join her in invoking […]
℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia. ℟. Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia. By the first four Sacraments, our Savior provided for the several spiritual necessities of man during this […]
In the company of our Risen Lord there are two women, two mothers, of whom we have often had to speak during the last few weeks: they are Mary, mother […]
(Easter is the Anglo-Saxon word for April, and was derived, as Venerable Bede tells us, (in his Book De ratione Tempore, Ch. 13,) from Eostre, a Goddess of our pagan […]
The scepter is taken from Juda, and Jerusalem is cast off, and the Messias is come! THE MORNING The sun has risen upon Jerusalem. But the priests and scribes have […]
We are weak and timid, and this makes us count as harsh the laws of the Church, which oblige us to fasting and abstinence; get us brave hearts, brave with the spirit of […]
The Saint we are to honor today, is one of the sublimest and most lucid interpreters of Divine Truth. He rose up in the Church many centuries after the Apostolic […]
We are called upon, a second time, to honor St. Peter’s Chair: first, it was his Pontificate in Rome; today it is his Episcopate at Antioch. The seven years spent by […]
…almost every page of the Gospel tells us, that we should live out of the world, separate ourselves from the world, hate the world…this World is everywhere, and holds a […]