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Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo the Great. 5th on the Twelfth day This meet and right, dearly beloved brethren, yea, it is our bounden duty and godly service, to rejoice with full hearts…
If you were to randomly ask an average Christian, even one who does not routinely pray, pay, or obey, what is the greatest miracle of all, chances are that the answer would be, almost without exception, the Resurrection. What happened on Easter Sunday morning—the disciples, finding the tomb empty, only to see shortly thereafter the…
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin. 1st on the Epiphany. Dearly beloved brethren, we are instructed by the tradition of the Fathers, that we have to keep holiday on this solemnity in…
We are in Epiphanytide, that stretch of the liturgical year whose very name, drawn from the Greek ἐπιφάνεια, signals manifestation, disclosure, the making-visible of divine reality within human history. From the beginning, Epiphany held a privileged place in the ancient Eastern Churches, where the Feast gathered into a single luminous focus several moments in which…
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of Pope St. Leo (the Great) 1 st for Twelfth-Day. Dearly beloved brethren, we have but lately celebrated that day whereon the inviolate virginity of Blessed Mary gave to man a Saviour….
Ask any average Catholic, “What is a saint?” and you will likely receive a puzzled look. The facial expression predicts their responding question, “What? You don’t know what a saint is? Everyone knows that? A saint is someone who is in Heaven!” And they would be correct, but only half-accurate, since, biblically speaking, there is…
A noteworthy Catholic speaker and musician, Paul Kim, tragically lost his son to a severe case of the flu. Another Catholic chastity speaker’s son was recently diagnosed with cancer but, through the prayers of thousands, seems to have made a miraculous recovery. Jennifer Fulwiler, a convert and passionate woman of God whose words have brought…
The Italian Vaticanologist Andrea Gagliarducci, who has a web page called Monday Vatican, is a careful observer of the papal transition—which means he is a careful observer of a very careful pope, Leo XIV. Gagliarducci commented on Pope Leo’s approach to understanding the political process in this way: “Leo XIV does not seem to be…
The U.S. government is afraid. For the last few years, we have watched a slow-motion collision between the Department of Defense and a reality it cannot explain. We have seen Congressional hearings where decorated pilots testify about objects performing impossible maneuvers. We have heard intelligence officials invent sterile, bureaucratic language to describe the inexplicable: “Instantaneous……
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. 2nd on the Epiphany. Many kings of the Jews had been born, and died, but which of them was sought after by wise men to worship…
