Christian joy is a gift of God flowing from a good conscience. (Saint Philip Neri, +1595)
Year: 2021
What Happens If the Money Runs Out?
That, dear reader, is the wrong question to ask, for money is a symbol, with no intrinsic value; hence, there no limit to how much money might be printed, (or, now, conjured up on the internet). It is what money symbolizes that is limited, and to grasp this we turn to a distinction made by[…]
Letter to the Editor
I have spent the past 20 years as General Manager of the Living Bread Radio Network, an EWTN affiliate. It has been a great joy to help others come to know the truths of the Catholic Faith. Through the years we have heard countless stories of listeners who have come back to the practice of[…]
Meditating on the close relationships between Mary and the Church, for the glory of the Virgin Mary and for our own consolation, we proclaim the Most Blessed Mary Mother of the Church, that is to say of all the people of God, of the faithful as well as of the pastors, who call her the[…]
Mary, Mother of the Church and Our Lady of Sheshan
The Monday following Pentecost is now the memorial of ‘The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church’, as decreed by the Holy Father, via Robert Cardinal Sarah, directed by the Holy Father, three years ago, on the memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes. This year, the day providentially falls on May 24th, Our Lady Help[…]
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and enkindle in them the fire of Thy love. Send forth Thy Spirit and they shall be created. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. A blessed Pentecost to one and all! +
The Holy Spirit, Leading us into All Truth
‘When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth’ (Jn. 16:13). ⧾ With the glorious Feast of Pentecost the seven weeks of Easter come to an end and Christ Our Lord’s Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given and communicated as a divine person: of[…]
The Rosary to the Holy Spirit and Evangelii Gaudium
Just before the celebration of Pentecost, I had the grace of praying the Rosary to the Holy Spirit with both patients and staff members at the Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre. The more the Lord gave me this grace of praying this powerful Rosary the more I came to realize its life-changing power. After praying[…]
Contemporary Despair and Misplaced Hopes
In good part because the rhetorical trick is quickly becoming hackneyed, I will not herein aver the existence of a “real pandemic” behind the apparent one, as if the crisis wrought by COVID-19 and the political reactions to it could be reduced to one single problem that is ostensibly unrelated yet surprisingly linked to a[…]
How should you conduct yourself if you want to follow in the footsteps of Jesus? You must strive to be saints…walk their same paths, renounce yourself completely, strive only for God’s glory, the good of the Church, and the salvation of souls (Saint Eugene de Mazenod)