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  • Children of the Magi

    “O Mary, keep us from forgetting that we are the children of the Magi, and that Bethlehem is ever open to receive us.” Dom Prosper Gueranger Since we remain in the octave of the Epiphany, I am posting another meditation by Dom Prosper Gueranger (b. 1805- d. 1875) on the topic of this blessed season. The last paragraph of the…

  • Hail Catholic Guilt!

    Much has been said about “Catholic guilt”, the much being: referencing it in conversation as a bad thing, a thing to be sloughed off following a self-described “emotionally unhealthy Catholic childhood”. Such a person, as an invented example, is irritated after telling a lie, for after lying, he feels an immediate guilt, a guilt which plagues him throughout the day,…