2nd Sunday after Easter: Every Christian’s Vocation
We have to conclude that our suffering – our suffering in a Christian, Christ-like way of suffering, will in turn be exemplary to others.
Low Sunday: Quasimodo geniti infantes
Another feature is that our reading includes the famous “Johannine Comma” in v. 8.
Easter Sunday: Azymoi!
Our task this year is to look at the first reading of Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo, usually from one of the Epistles and most commonly from a Pauline Epistle. For Easter Sunday we have a brief reading – not surprising after the last few super-charged liturgical marathon days – from the Apostle to…
Palm Sunday – The example so perfect that it transforms us
I’ve been under the gun lately because of various personal things and preparations for travel. Therefore, I am channeling my inner environmentalist activist and recycling something I wrote for my own blog, perhaps already known to you. Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week. Holy week includes the Sacred Triduum. The principal ceremonies of…
1st Passion Sunday: Unfurl the Battle Banners!
In the ancient Roman Church, before the establishment of what we now call Lent, we would have begun today, now called 1st Passion Sunday, a more intense fortnight fast leading to Easter morning. It is important for us to keep in mind that another source for teasing forth the themes of the seasons and feasts…
4th Sunday of Lent: Catching our breath and sneaking around
“To say that Bilbo’s breath was taken away is no description at all. There are no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful” (The Hobbit, Ch. 12). This is rather how I feel in approaching this magnificent…
3rd Sunday of Lent: “Do you hear what you are saying?!?”
The Missale Romanum is one of the principle means by which Holy Church gave two great gifts to the entire human race across the globe through centuries: art and saints.
2nd Sunday of Lent: We’re in the grinder now.
Peter denied the Lord, James fled, and only John returned to be at the foot of the Cross. Let us not get puffed up about how tough we are in view of the Enemy of the soul’s relentless grinder.
1st Sunday of Lent: A fork in the road of your life
How many times do we hear today from leftists and modernists, German theologians and Jesuits activists, that “that was maybe true back then, but this is now; that teaching was culturally conditioned and doesn’t apply to us anymore!”?
Quinquagesima Sunday: A platitude or a way of life?
Without charity we are in darkness, and all our works are profitless.
Sexagesima Sunday: You glorious image of God, you!
...be it relief even through a miracle, or be it silence through a suspension of consolations...
