A Great Muster
“The bishop sat in lordly state and purple cap sublime, And galvanised the old bush church at Confirmation time; And all the kids were mustered up from fifty miles around, With Sunday clothes, and...
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Slowly Dying
Catholic Exchange shares Pope Saint Leo the Great on the Passion of the Lord, a sermon which will inspire proper preparation for Easter communion. The words of this great Pope are timeless. “And because...
Milk, Honey, Beauty
In a post that emphasizes the beauty and fullness of the ancient Paschal traditions, Vultus Christi expounds on these practices and their meaning for both monastic and laypeople, neophytes and veterans. Days of Milk...
Unwanted Items, Necessary Info
Continuing on our Lenten journey, Finer Femininity has a wonderful excerpt from Maria Von Trapp’s “Around the Year With the Trapp Family” in a post entitled Laetare Sunday to Palm Sunday – Maria Von...
This is Catholicism, Episode 15: On the Form of Her Government
Father Philip Eldracher discusses the organization of the Catholic Church and the threefold office Christ conferred on the Apostles. A Complete Catechism of the Catholic Religion by Father Joseph Deharbe, S.J. was originally written...
Hopelessness, Suffering, Prayer
The accelerating and unrelenting parade of gadgets and technology with which the world is obsessed are most assuredly the biggest distraction mankind has ever seen. As the excerpt presented in Science and Hopelessness on...
“Why are Your Robes Red?”
The First Sunday of Lent from Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals provides several resources of meditation on the Gospel of the first of the Sundays in Lent as we launch into the first...
Dust and Ashes
Ash Wednesday is upon us, bringing with it the Lenten season. Catholic Harbor of Faith and Morals shares an excellent dissertation, Ash Wednesday, by Rev. James Luke Meagher, expounding upon the traditional significance and...
“Or Kill an Old Lady in Finsbury Park.”
Lent: A Way of Looking Within and Beyond the Soul by Dr. Mitchell Kalpakgian is a good read for mental preparation as we round the bend into the home stretch before Lent, the season...
In Veritate, Episode 22: Members of the Church and Idolatry
God wills that the Church be the means of salvation and not of judgment. The purpose of the Church is to bring as many people as possible to the light of faith and means...
