Saintly Slaps and Sung Masses: Remembering Saint Hugh of Lincoln
When the time came for the ceremonial slap of the cheek, Hugh taught the peasant a lesson.
When the time came for the ceremonial slap of the cheek, Hugh taught the peasant a lesson.
You must step on the fumi-e of Christ the Bridegroom and His Bride the Church to live in the world of “Love.”
The Body of Christ is one of friendship and brotherly love.
A change in vocational path, provided it remains on the path of God’s commandments, is never in itself a failure.
I follow the approach outlined by Joachim Salaverri in his Tractatus de Ecclesia from the Sacrae Theologiae Summa.
We soon caught sight of the statue of Saint Louis, standing in all its glory on Art Hill.
The pilgrims pray for Christendom, that is to pray for the teaching of the Gospels to inspire our human society, in its legislation, in its culture, practices and customs.
There were four altars dedicated one each to the Martyrs of Ossernenon and to St. Kateri Tekakwitha, born of their blood.
The traditional Latin Mass shows unambiguously the beauty of the complementary roles of both sexes in public Divine worship.
Even small children can unite themselves to the action of the Mass, in ways they could not articulate, when they glimpse the dignity of an activity clearly not directed to anything merely human.
The response of care, informed through Catholic Tradition, offers a way to understand our relationship to God’s creation that is an alternative to the political frameworks of environmentalism and climate change activism.