It is Holy Week, the week of our liberation. Indeed, this is the week we commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ who is, as Our Lady described in an old Irish story related by G.K. Chesterton, the boy we shall all be wanting at the last: I heard a story in Ireland years ago about how someone had…
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Spiritual Medicine
The following is a bit of spiritual medicine for all of us in the Church Militant from a Doctor of the Church: “Be not therefore dismayed or troubled but continue to give thanks to God for all things, praising, and invoking Him; beseeching and supplicating; even if countless tumults and troubles come upon you, even if tempests are stirred up…
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Merry Christmas!
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” ~Charles Dickens Merry Christmas to you and yours! ~S.C. Fischer, K. Anne, Christen Marian, B. Anne, and A. Therese
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The Blessed Virgin Mary: Necessary for Salvation
Luther said that he “could not endure the thought that the Church of Rome should call Mary, who is only a creature, ‘our hope,’ for God alone [he said], and Jesus Christ as our Mediator, is our hope.” But the Church does teach us to invoke Mary on all occasions and call her our hope: “Hail, our hope!” ~St. Alphonsus…
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The Holy Name of Jesus
Today, the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the Holy Name of Jesus. As per other notable feast days and church commemorations, Dom Prosper Gueranger (b. 1805- d. 1875) reflected on the riches of this day, writing: In the Old Covenant the Name of God inspired fear and awe: nor was the honour of pronouncing it granted to all the children of…
