Remember Man hat thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return (Genesis 3:19)
Month: February 2026
Remember Man, That Thou Art Dust…Pope Benedict and Ash Wednesday
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Paul VI Audience Hall Wednesday, 9 March 2011 Ash Wednesday Dear Brothers and Sisters, On this day, marked by the austere symbol of ashes, we enter the Season of Lent, beginning a spiritual journey that prepares us for celebrating worthily the Easter Mysteries. The blessed ashes imposed upon our forehead are a[…]
The Seven Servite Saints of the Virgin Mary
The Seven Founders of the Servite Order commemorate the group of merchants who in 1233 left everything to follow Christ, with a special devotion to the Virgin Mary, particularly in her own union in the Passion of her Son under the title of Our Lady of Sorrows. They each received an independent vision from Our[…]
Distributism: The Original ‘Third Way’ for Shared Ownership, Social Justice, and Economic Equality & Democracy
(Contributor Tadgh Quil-Manley offers a reflection here on distributism, an economic philosophy derived by Chesterton, Belloc and others from Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical, Rerum Novarum. Readers, myself included, may take some pause over the notion herein of a ‘universal basic income’, but much depends on how one understands and implements such terms and concepts, in[…]
Nietzsche and Tumbler
Nietzsche either warned or advocated – depending on your point of view – the transvaluation of all values, which is to say, the inversion of the moral law. After all, from his perspective, after the ‘death of God’, there was no moral law, and never has been. Christianity was invented to keep the masses subservient,[…]
Make your people known for the unity and profession of their faith. Inspire the hearts of your people with your word and your teaching. You called us to preach the Gospel of your Christ and to encourage them to lives and works pleasing to you. (Saint Cyril, +869)
Saints Cyril and Methodius, and, Yes, Valentine
On this fourteenth of February, in the universal calendar we celebrate the ninth-century monks and missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, patrons of Europe, who translated the Liturgy into Slavonic, with Cyril constructing the Glagolitic and Cyrillic alphabets for this purpose. This vernacular allowed for the conversion of untold thousands into the Church. (See Father Attard’s[…]
Harvesting the Living
The words themselves are chilling: ‘Pre-death approval by the coroner‘: And on it goes into the abyss: “17: The Chief Coroner may allow the removal of organs or tissue after the death of a person notwithstanding that death has not yet occurred if: (a) in the opinion of a physician the death of the person[…]
Anastasia – the Musical!
I’d like to say publicly that the students here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College, under the direction of our staff and faculty, did a wonderful, even a quasi-miraculous, job with the musical Anastasia – the vivid acting, the coordinated harmonized singing, the choreography (from waltz to ballet), the scenes, the incredible live music[…]
John Paul II at Lourdes
PILGRIMAGE OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II TO LOURDES ON THE OCCASION OF 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROMULGATION OF THE DOGMA OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION HOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER JOHN PAUL II Prairie de la Ribère Sunday, 15 August 2004 1. “Que soy era Immaculada Councepciou”. The words which Mary spoke to Bernadette on 25 March[…]