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  • Notes on the Immaculate Conception

    It is beginning to cool down in the OV from which I am writing this week, and lo, I looked at the calendar and noted that the beloved day, December the eighth, is rapidly approaching: the day in which our Mother, the Roman Catholic Church, celebrates the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Why is this…

  • Passing on the Roman Catholic Faith

    “Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” G.K. Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936)   Let us pass on the Roman Catholic Faith to the next generation. If we do that, we will leave behind a living thing: the soul of our Catholic society, the society that we entered at Baptism. It will…

  • Good Shepherd Redux

    The following scripture passage is today’s Gospel reading for the Mass in the traditional calendar (source). It is a message from Our Savior that never fails to invigorate and engender hope: At that time, Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. He who is a hired hand…