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A Little Lenten Reflection

As the universal Church begins the anticipatory and penitent season of Lent, it is important to take a moment to understand the season’s meaning and how it applies to each of the Catholic faithful. Lent is a time of prayer, fasting, and alms-giving in preparation for the passion and resurrection of Christ. So, when we[…]

Mount Everest

It isn’t the most difficult mountain to climb, but in many ways the most impressive. The top of the world, the highest spot one can stand on the earth’s surface, so high that the blue sky is tinged to violet, one is so much closer to outer space. Breathtaking footage, for those of us who[…]

For if he were not expecting that those who had fallen would rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead. But if he was looking to the splendid reward that is laid up for those who fall asleep in godliness, it was a holy and pious thought. Therefore he[…]

The Mystery Hidden For Ages in God, or, Why Aren’t Catholics Holier Than They Are?

On his visit to our college a number of years ago, the late Jesuit priest and scholar Father Koterski mentioned a book that he described as the ‘most influential he has ever read’, namely, his fellow Jesuit’s Father Paul Quay’s “The Mystery Hidden for Ages in God” – whose subtitle is ‘why aren’t Catholics holier[…]

I AM: A Poem

I AM the Way to heaven’s road but you cannot come with such a load of things so heavy you think you knead where only living bread will feed. I AM the treasure, I AM the King, I AM the wind beneath your wing like petals falling in the midst of May, for My smallest[…]

Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans

Juditha Triumphans is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only one of four he is known to have written which survived. Its date of composition is not precisely known, but is a metaphorical meditation on the story of Judith’s Old Testament triumph over the pagans, in light of the Christian defense of Corfu against the[…]

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