The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)
Month: June 2021
Lauda Sion
From Tomás Luis de Victoria, his motet in praise of the Holy Eucharist, from 1585, in an era when the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass was suppressed throughout Europe, falling into the errors of Protestantism. But beauty is one of the best ways of reminding us of the truth of what Christ has left us[…]
The Church is Eucharistic in Her Very Essence
O Sacred banquet in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us (St. Thomas Aquinas, +1274). ⧾ As we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi as it is traditionally[…]
An Addendum to the Ugandan Martyrs, and King Mwanga
I was reading some of the corollary to the martyrs we celebrate today, the numerous ‘pages’ of King Mwanga put to death for resisting his unnatural sexual advances. He had them burned alive, an unpleasant way to go, but Charles Lwanga, who was in charge of the pages, and saved them from the king’s lust[…]
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. ~ Saint Jean Vianney
In Defense of Sanity: Chesterton’s Remedy
G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) hardly needs an introduction to the typical reader of Catholic literature. Author of more than sixty books of essays, fiction, poetry, biography and drama, Chesterton’s hundreds of essays are sprinkled among scores of books. This fact presents a problem of difficult accessibility, remedied at last by an intelligent collection of the best[…]
No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. (Saint Justin Martyr, +165)
The New Lepers?
(I have an article coming out on the scientific method – how we develop ‘models’ to explain the universe, either in some small way – as, here, with Paula Adamick’s timely take on the vaccines. Or in a more universal way, our overall ‘worldview’. Eventually, the ‘models’ we develop must be tested against reality, as[…]