He must increase, and I must decrease (Saint John the Baptist)
Month: June 2020
Radical Feminism and the Anti-Mary
“Yes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are a gross form white supremacy. Created as tools of oppression. Racist propaganda. They should all come down.” –Civil Rights activist Shaun King, June 22, 2020. When Elizabeth Taylor died in 2011,[…]
No Stone Left Unturned: Thoughts on Ravi Zacharias’s Mission
On May 19, Ravi Zacharias died at his home in Atlanta from a rare cancer known as sarcoma which was found as a malignant tumor on his sacrum. At his memorial, American Vice President, Mike Pence and baseballer, Tim Tebow both spoke of him with unqualified praise. In his speech, Pence repeated a statement issued[…]
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. (Saint Thomas More, +1535)
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. (Saint Jean Vianney)
Twelfth Sunday, Open Churches and the Return of the King
‘Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven’ (Mt. 10: 26, 32). ⧾ At long last we have returned to the celebration of the Sacrifice of the Mass, the source and summit of our Catholic life, the mystery upon which authentic Christian life is patterned;[…]
It was surely fitting that divine Wisdom, which had built the house of the Church for its abode, should use most holy Mary as its instrument, where the observance of the law, purification of the heart, the doctrine of humility and spiritual offering were concerned. (Saint Laurence Justinian, +1456)
Nicene’s Creed and Christ’s Human and Divine Heart
The Creed of the Council of Nicaea was officially promulgated on this day in 325 A.D., under the auspices of the newly-converted – well, mostly converted, for he waited until his deathbed to be baptized – Emperor Constantine. I guess he figured Caesars have to do a lot of questionable things in the line of[…]
Jesus ceaselessly receives from the Father, rich in mercy and compassion, the love which he lavishes upon human beings. His Heart particularly reveals the generosity of God towards sinners. God’s reaction to sin is not to lessen his love, but to expand it into a flow of mercy which becomes the initiative of the Redemption.[…]
Notre Dame’s Decline
Dr. John Fisher reflects upon his time at Notre Dame in the 1960’s which, for all of its own cultural revolution, seems paradisical compared to our current campuses. What we are witnessing in the apparent dissolution in our civilization had a long incubation period in the womb of these false ‘alma maters’. We reap what[…]