From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer Christ has clearly added a law here, binding us to a definite condition, that we should ask for our debts to be forgiven us only as much as we ourselves forgive our debtors, knowing that we cannot obtain what we seek in...
From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer As the prayer continues, we ask Give us this day our daily bread. This can be understood both spiritually and literally, because either way of understanding is rich in divine usefulness to our salvation. For Christ is the bread of life, and...
A reading from the works of St Bonaventure You who have been redeemed, consider who it is who hangs on the cross for you, whose death gives life to the dead, whose passing is mourned by heaven and earth, while even the hard stones are split. Consider how great he...
From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer The prayer continues: Thy kingdom come. We ask that the kingdom of God may appear to us, just as we ask that his name may be sanctified in us. For when does God not reign, or when does his kingdom begin, for...
This information has been transferred from the Home Page without modification. – PM PASTORAL LETTER TO ALL CATHOLICS FROM THE BISHOPS OF SCOTLAND: Our Bishops have written us this letter to coincide with the publication of a number of documents they have made available on their website from both their...
The article whose title is above is published free online in today’s “The Catholic Thing”. The author is Hadley Arkes who is Ney Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Amherst College and the Founder/Director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights & the American Founding. His most recent book is Constitutional...
From St Cyprian’s treatise on the Lord’s Prayer: How great is the Lord’s indulgence! How kindly he bends down to us, how he overflows with goodness towards us! For he wishes us to pray in the sight of God in such a way as to call God Father and to...
At the beginning of Mass this morning, I promised I would upload a couple of prayers of St. Richard. Here they are (followed by the biography of him given in the Universalis App): His last prayer: “Thanks be to thee, my Lord Jesus Christ, for all the benefits thou hast...
