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From the HPR Archives – Part V
HPR, v. 34.1 (1933–1934), pp. 43-47 PRACTICAL ASCETICAL NOTES FOR PRIESTS The Cultivation of Perfection By BEDE JARRETT, O.P. In Our Lord’s view of holiness, whether for priest or people, the central part of it lies hid … continue reading..
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Homilies for July 2025
For July 6, July 13, July 20, and July 27 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – July 6, 2025 Readings: Isaiah 66:10–14c • Psalm 66:1–3, 4–5, 6–7, 16, 20 • Galatians 6:14–18 • Luke 10:1–12, 17–20 bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/070625.cfm In today’s Gospel, taken from the Evangelist Luke, we read of the commissioning of the disciples by the […]
The Discipleship Stage of Priestly Formation: A Thomistic and Pastoral Vision
The priestly vocation is a gift from Christ to His Church, a sacred calling that demands careful discernment, formation, and accompaniment. The Church’s contemporary vision for priestly formation has been significantly renewed through the 2016 Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) 6th Edition of the Program of Priestly Formation (PPF, 2022). These […]
The Crippling Effect of Modern Discernment
The word discernment, in recent decades, has jumped in popularity. Part of that can be traced to a revitalization of traditional Ignatian spirituality. Presbyteral culture has become decidedly more Ignatian, through the influence of seminaries and groups like the Institute of Priestly Formation. At the same time, broader American Catholic discipleship has also seen a […]
Theological Reflections on Man from the Hexameron of St. Ambrose of Milan
St. Ambrose’s work The Six Days of Creation traces a practice that had also been the practice of other great authors of the early centuries, from Origen to St. Basil, for the Greek world, to St. Augustine, for the Latin side, that is, that of exegetical commentary on perhaps one of the most commented-upon biblical […]
Homo Liturgicus: On the Necessity of Liturgy for Men
It has been noted by many Catholic commentators over the years that in a world that seeks to silence the sound of church bells on Sunday mornings and disrobe from itself the vestiges of an ordered Christian past, among the many things on display during “pride month” is an inextinguishable desire to create in sight […]
Catholic Marriage in a Fallen World
Lucia, one of the children who received a visit from the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima, wrote to Cardinal Carlo Caffarra in the early 1980s explaining that there would be a battle with Satan over marriage and the family.1 Back in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI listened to reflections on Good Friday in Rome which were […]
Questions Answered – July 2025
Why Does Jesus Have Two Genealogies? Question One: Dear Father, I am in a Bible study in my parish and I was wondering, as we are about to begin reading the New Testament, I am wondering why are there two different genealogies for Jesus in the New Testament? Answer: Thanks for this great question! The […]
Book Reviews – July 2025
Thomas Shields and the Renewal of Catholic Education. By Leonardo Franchi. Reviewed by Paul Bryant. (skip to review) Spiritual Masters: Living and Praying in the Catholic Tradition. By Alfred C. Hughes. Reviewed by Robert P. Miller. (skip to review) The Holiness of Ordinary People. By Madeleine Delbrêl. Reviewed by S.E. Greydanus. (skip to review) 100 Tough […]
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Homilies for July 2025
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Homilies for June 2025
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The Discipleship Stage of Priestly Formation: A Thomistic and Pastoral Vision
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The Restoration of the Permanent Diaconate After the Second Vatican Council
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