Thank God for Peter
Sixth Sunday after Pentecost In today’s Gospel we see our blessed Lord feeding several thousand people with a few loaves of bread and a few fish. The miraculous multiplication of course prefigured the Most Holy Eucharist in which the Lord continues to nourish generations of faithful with His most precious Body. Just one detail of […]
The Voice in the Desert
Nativity of St John the Baptist The nativity of St John the Baptist has always been a joyful event. His birth was unexpected. His parents were old. His mother was barren. God steps in, she conceives and gives birth to a boy. St Luke tells us that the whole region rejoiced at this birth. Zachariah, […]
God Wants You More Than Your Gift
5th Sunday after Pentecost The collect prayer for this fifth Sunday after Pentecost, is, like so many of the ancient Roman orations, a masterpiece of composition that loses much in the translation. Nevertheless, let’s attempt this rendering: O God, Thou hast prepared for those who love Thee, goods that cannot be seen with the eyes […]
Stay in the Boat
“And getting into one of the boats, the one that was Simon’s, He asked him to put out a little from the land.” The Lord is with us, dear brothers, dear faithful, or rather, we are with Him in this boat of Simon Peter’s. This morning’s passage from the Holy Gospel gives us an example […]
A Pierced Heart
Heart of Jesus, pierced with a lance, Heart of Jesus, victim for our sins, have mercy on us Today, dear faithful, we are celebrating the External Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus; we celebrated this feast in full last Friday (with the beautiful addition of First Friday adoration), and like the feast of […]
St Cecilia Triduum for June
June is the month of the Sacred Heart, and this year the feast actually coincides with the First Friday, which is not a common occurrence. Even though the devotion to the Sacred Heart as we know it did not become current among Catholics until modern times, its sources go all the way back to the […]
Stay with us, Lord!
“He who eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, abides in Me and I in him… He who eats this Bread shall live forever. (St John 6: 57,59)” Let us cast our minds back a number of weeks to Easter, to the appearances of Our Blessed Lord following His Resurrection. Call to mind the road […]
The Cornerstone
Trinity Sunday The celebration of Trinity Sunday is meant to bring before our eyes and inspire deeper gratitude for all the mysteries of our beloved faith. All of our preceding meditations concerning the life of our blessed Lord culminate in the glorious vision of the Triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Some people seem […]
A Good (not a Nice) Shepherd
Pentecost Sunday Fifty days after the ancient passover took place the promulgation of the Old Law on Mount Sinai; so fifty days after the new passover, that is the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ, takes place the promulgation of the new and eternal covenant through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles. […]
