The movements of Holy Week and Eastertide are enacted to bring the Christian people to the stability of a pierced love that cannot be shaken. Year after year, the Cross beckons and asks if we are faithful in our love, if we can stand with … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2017
Chapter Eight of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation “Amoris Laetitia”
For a guided reading Chapter Eight of the Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Amoris laetitia is significantly entitled: "Accompanying, discerning and integrating weakness." This part of the document is not very large, because it is … [Read more...]
Wilderness versus Pseudo-Paradise
A Reflection on the Church in Revelation, 12:13-17
May 1, 2017 by Fr. Andreas Hoeck, SSD
Introduction Last year on March 17, 2016, the government of the United States had issued a formal statement regarding Christian genocide in our days: Secretary of State John Kerry declared that ISIS is committing genocide against … [Read more...]
Liturgy as an Act of Leisure
Perspectives from Guardini, Pieper, and Ratzinger
May 1, 2017 by Veronica A. Arntz
We frequently hear that the liturgy is the “source and summit” of the Christian life, a quote from the Vatican II document, Lumen gentium. We often do not get the whole context for this small part of the quote. In a slightly different tran … [Read more...]
Orthodox Christians and the Modern Church
May 1, 2017 by John Madigan
With the recent meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, and all Russia, it is important and helpful to remind ourselves of developments in the Church’s teachings regarding our Eastern brothers. This article explores how l … [Read more...]
The Immaculate Heart of Mary as the The Perfect Custodian of the Human Heart
May 1, 2017 by Bernard M. Collins
Showing us a disposition to be acquired, as well as admired. Can anyone doubt that we live in times of great moral danger, perhaps as great as at any time in human history? Any recitation of grave evils in the world need go no further … [Read more...]
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