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Above: the Raising of Lazarus by Jean Jouvenet (1644 – 1717). 1. After our Lord’s raising of one to life, who had been four days dead, to the utter amazement of the Jews, some of whom believed on seeing it, and others perished in their envy, because of that sweet savor which is unto life…
Ever since we set out on this spiritual journey on the Gesima Sundays, step by step we have drawn nearer to Holy Week. Now we stand at the threshold of the remaining days of Holy Week and the Sacred Triduum, those three days which are at once the Church’s deepest descent and highest elevation. Weariness…
Above: Contributing editor Dr. Peter Kwasnieski wrote this text against the Bablyonian Captivity of the Roman Rite, which includes the 55 reform. Part I – The Roman Calendar in 1954: The Last Year of Wholeness Part II – The Vigil of the Epiphany: the Forgotten Gateway to Christ’s Manifestation Part III – The Chair of…
The Son of God did not bring salvation and redemption to our fallen world through His signs, wonders, or words, but rather, by willingly experiencing an incomprehensibly violent death in the most virile manner, overcoming it at His Resurrection. Jesus gave up His life that the Body of Christ, the Church, would live (Ephesians 5:25)…
Former university president and rock-ribbed evangelical Everett Piper writes in the Washington Times this week that Carrie Prejean is an antisemite because she believes, like all Catholics, that the Church is the New Israel and that the modern state of Israel is not Biblical Israel, that is to say, 1948 Israel is not the fulfillment…
From St. Aphonsus’s Glories of Mary. And now we have to admire a new sort of martyrdom, a mother condemned to see an innocent son, whom she loved with all the affection of her heart, put to death before her eyes, by the most barbarous tortures. There stood by the cross of Jesus his mother:…
In the first part of this essay, we examined the origins of one of the most beloved wonder-working images of the Mother of God among the Russian Orthodox people — the Seven-Arrow’s Icon. This icon is Latin in its origin and associated spirituality, and it was revealed by the favour of God and the Theotokos…
I do not need to be convinced that poverty is real. As one who lived and taught in Central and South America, extreme poverty and suffering of my own people proved heartbreaking.[1] As Pope Leo XIV recently underlined, structural issues in Peru are attributable to such extreme poverty.[2] Economic theory is not the strong suite…
Above: pilgrims lighting candles in the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Editor’s note: there is no free, digitised version of the Patristic homily appointed in the office for today’s Gospel. The sermon is Homily 33 of St. Gregory the Great, and an excerpt can be found here (under “Reading 1”) and a full…
Above: Vologda, Russia. History preserves many signs of the unity of the Church — the unity that seemed to have been lost between East and West, between the Catholic Church under Rome and the Third Rome — Russia — a great European empire of the age when the so-called ‘confessions’ had already hardened into fixed…
