The Gospel of St. Luke is the one which most tells us of Jesus at prayer. Jesus does not so much fit prayer into his busy schedule as fit his schedule into his intense prayer life. For prayer is not so much something we do as who we are. Jesus...
Article in The Catholic Herald regarding a recent news item on “mitochondrial babies.” The article raises and explains the ethical problems with this technology from a Catholic moral-doctrinal perspective. https://thecatholicherald.com/article/no-parent-babies-mitochondrial-replacement-and-the-birth-of-human-clones
When I first went to see Rose a few days after Bob died, I remember thinking what a resilient person she was. Despite her profound grief, she showed an immense strength of spirit in the acceptance, in the steady eye contact and in her clear and calm manner of expression....
Martha welcomed Jesus into her house. How welcome is Jesus in myhouse, the one around me, and the one inside me, my heart and soul? Martha loved Jesus as Jesus loved her and Mary and Lazarus. Theirs was a second home to Him. But Martha and Mary teach us much...
The fourth in the series of our 12 Eucharistic Saints, Patrons and Patronesses of our Eucharistic Revival The Eucharistic Testimony of St. Juliana of Liège St. Juliana of Liège, also known as St. Juliana of Cornillon, was a woman of strength and inner conviction. She is little known but...
The third in our series of Eucharistic Saints, Patrons and Patronesses of our Eucharistic Revival EUCHARISTIC TESTIMONY OF ST. CLARE OF ASSISI Biographical Notes on St. Clare Clare was born in 1194, in Assisi, to the noble Offreduccio household. She was the eldest daughter of Favarone and his...
What Jesus is saying to the disciples is: don’t be joyful because you have power (or have anything!), but because heaven knows your name, that is, because I love you. Powerful figures of history write their names on huge monuments of stone to be remembered. But the names of those...
After the Angel had freed him from prison, we hear St. Peter say, “Now I am sure that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod.” We then hear St. Paul say, “I was rescued from the lion’s mouth. The Lord will rescue me...
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