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  • Devotion to Mary on Candlemas 2022

    “Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” –Saint Francis de Sales Today, on the feast of Candlemas, I am re-posting a poem in which the English Catholic writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936) professed his love of, and need for, the Blessed Virgin Mary.  The poem…

  • Epiphany Homily

    The website Rorate Caeli posted a beautiful Epiphany homily by Fr. Richard Cipolla yesterday. It is a meditation on the journey of the Three Kings, and is presented as if one of the kings had written a summation of the events. Today, I am re-posting it in its entirety as we remain in the Epiphany season. Do enjoy! From the Gospel:…

  • Keep a Catholic Christmas

    The other night, while driving in a suburb of what used to be known as Steel City, we noticed that nearly all of the home Christmas lights had been taken down, and put away. The houses had lost their Christmas glow and warmth, and appeared bare and plain, set as they were against the dark winter sky; but as we pulled…

  • The Nativity of Mary: September 8

    “She (Mary) was born into this world without original sin*, because she is the Immaculate Conception.” Fr. Bonaventure McGuire, homily on the Nativity of Mary, link (below) Tomorrow is the celebration of the Nativity of Mary. It is a happy day in the Roman Catholic Church. If we tried to imagine a creature given to us as the Mother of…

  • The Art of Stained Glass

    This past Sunday, J. David took this picture (above) of the stained glass window of the the Nativity in St. Peter Church, Steubenville, Ohio. That window, and another fifteen (plus), that perch high on the walls of that beautiful church, were crafted in Germany over one hundred years ago. I cannot imagine the innumerable eyes that have beheld their beauty…