Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Jerome, Priest at Bethlehem. On the Assumption Who and what was the blessed and glorious Mary, always a Virgin, hath been revealed by God by the message of an Angel,…

The Catholic Church has always acknowledged the posture of kneeling as something uniquely beautiful within the context of the Holy Mass, a gesture that speaks more deeply than words. Kneeling embodies humility, adoration, and a profound readiness to receive the mysteries unfolding on the altar. In a world that often celebrates self-assertion, the act of…

The country is living through a spiritual vacuum of its own making, carved out by decades of nihilism dressed up as liberation. A culture that once anchored itself to God now anchors itself to nothing. And when people believe in nothing, they turn to anything—rage, tribal identity, self-invention, even violence. We are entering a time…