What kind of mass was Chesterton attending in his day and familiar with? The Tridentine Mass or the Latin Mass. What sort of response would Chesterton have given to the Motu Proprio? Continue reading THE MASS WHO KNEW CHESTERTON
he resembles less the “Mad as Hell” angry news anchor Howard Beale in Network that Kyle Smith suggests, but more so the famed early-twentieth century writer G.K. Chesterton, who upheld conservative values for the sake of the common man and common sense. Continue reading THE NEW G.K. CHESTERTON
What is needed is a change of heart that strengthens that heart not to act in a base way no matter how it is treated because it has Christ living on the inside of it Continue reading THE SOLUTION TO MAN’S PROBLEMS
It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles. Continue reading NOT A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS BUT OF EXILES
Such is the case of their local preference, their love of country, its land, its customs, its language, its culture, its heritage. The traditional patriot loves these before all other countries but not to the exclusion or harm of other countries. They want the same patriotic love for every other family and country. Continue reading A LOVE OF COUNTRY
The fight is upon us to guard those fences as best we can and to rely on God for the rest. We must fight it as “brave men”. Continue reading REAL FREEDOM
Let us follow for a moment the clue of the martyr and the suicide; and take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. Continue reading MEMORIAL OF THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME
When Christ established His great society, He made His choices not on merit or our desire, but on His higher thinking. Continue reading FEAST OF STS PETER AND PAUL
Frances Chesterton, wife of G. K. Chesterton, was born on June 28, 1869. She married G. K. Chesterton on the same date,.June 28, in 1901. Theirs was a happy and faithful marriage of two “incompatible” people: a man and a woman. As G. K. Chesterton was later to observe in his defense of marriage: Continue reading Frances Chesterton’s Birthday and The Wedding Anniversary of Gilbert and Frances Chesterton
John had the supreme adventure of birth and life becoming the precursor of Christ, preparing the people for his coming! Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
Especially in difficult times of challenge, when those times always begin with friendships and relationships in the home before they ever get to the public square, the lives of the saints who faced Christ’s sword of division ( Matthew 10:33-35) give us courage. So it is with Sir Thomas More. Continue reading MEMORIAL OF ST THOMAS MOORE AND ST JOHN FISHER
A blessed day of remembering all our sacrificial Fathers – especially our Lord and our priests. Continue reading FATHER’S DAY
“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.” Continue reading Past any desire for distinction…
the very necessary truth of the subordination of Mary to Christ, as being after all the subordination of the creature to the Creator Continue reading FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE OF HEART OF MARY
The truth is that it is the image of Christ in the churches that is almost entirely mild and merciful. It is the image of Christ in the Gospels that is a good many other things as well. Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
It means facing up to the ridicule, the anger, even the killing rage of others when they hear the truth. Continue reading IN THE SAME BOAT
because it is about the dead from wars past, who need to be remembered most for the lessons they tried to teach us. Continue reading MEMORIAL DAY
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
HAPPY 147th BIRTHDAY TO GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON! Continue reading Happy Birthday, Mr. Chesterton!
When our Lord says He came to cause divisions, it behooves us to understand why and what kind Continue reading DIVISION AND UNITY
O God, Father of mercies, whose Only Begotten Son, as he hung upon the Cross, chose the Blessed Virgin Mary, his Mother, to be our Mother also Continue reading MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
The Church is born! Hallelujah! Continue reading PENTECOST!
Christ and His Kingdom and a new spirit – one of strength to bear up under the trials of this world aided with the Holy Spirit – not drugs or the temporary pleasure of sin. That. That is what gives us hope. Continue reading PAIN AND HOPE
Who can fix the human heart? See, that’s not a technological problem, is it. No, that is a spiritual problem and one that can’t be resolved with an algorithm. Continue reading THE QUEST FOR TOMORROWLAND
Science wants to be our established “Church”. It marries all arms of secularism, with Materialism being first and foremost, and by doing so gains great power. It’s man making himself god and what he can accomplish a thing to be worshipped. Continue reading THE COMING SCIENTIFICALLY ORGANIZED STATE
We cannot solve our problems ourselves. Only Christ can do that. Only His kingdom is the answer. BUT, we can change our mind, how we see things and start seeing them from God’s view point. Continue reading THE ROOT CAUSE OF DIVISIONS
Chesterton believed in miracles himself and wrote much about them in several works, one of which, Orthodoxy, explained why he believed in them. Continue reading MIRACULOUS APPEARANCES!
Another Eastertide (Octave) has come to a close with the Sunday of Divine Mercy. But the Easter Season continues! Christ is still risen! Hallelujah! Continue reading Eastertide: Divine Mercy – Immortality is the great holiday…
When once a god is admitted, even a false god, the Cosmos begins to know its place: which is the second place. When once it is the real God the Cosmos falls down before Him, offering flowers in spring as flames in winter. Continue reading Eastertide: In Humility – The Cosmos begins to know its place…
There would be peace if everyone understood the point Jesus was making about little children, what God is going to do to the world and what heaven is really like. Continue reading Eastertide – Strong enough to exult in monotony : entering the Kingdom of Heaven
As Chesterton reminds us, what we have in this Eastertide is not a reminder of Spring coming again, but an actual reminder of the reversal of death for all time! Continue reading Eastertide – Because death has been defeated…
we have to face the awful exaltation of that truth. I mean the truth that Resurrection is of faith and not of any false analogy from the senses or the seasons. Continue reading Eastertide – Nothing less can raise us from the dead…
“His command to us “to preach the good news to all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations” ( Matt 24:14) is all about assuring such ones that we do indeed worship a God who knows the way out of their dilemma because he knows the way out of the grave!” Continue reading Eastertide – A God Who Knew The Way Out Of The Grave…
It is this splendour of the hopeless hope; sometimes called the forlorn hope, which has made the peculiar chivalry of Christendom, which has given to us alone the true idea of romance Continue reading Eastertide – The peculiar chivalry of Christendom…
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! For, as Chesterton observed, “we have a God who knew the way out of the grave!” Continue reading Holy Week: Easter Sunday – What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation…
As we enter the Great Silence, begun at the end of Good Friday when Christ was laid in the tomb, we remember that all creation was holding its breath during that time. Waiting. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Saturday – Guarded by the authority of the Caesars…
A man can have a change of mind and heart, a metanoia, but he needs a Savior to change his spirit. Otherwise, the other conclusion is an inevitable and very dark one. The Cross was and is the only way out of this dilemma. Continue reading Holy Week: Good Friday – The best things in the world that are at their worst…
On this Holy Thursday, this Maunday Thursday, we remember two things: One, as Chesterton’s quote tells us, is an object of faith that we agree to believe in and the other is a commandment demonstrating a work of faith. Continue reading Holy Week: Maundy Thursday – An object of faith…
We are wise not to forget that this simple act of betrayal was accomplished merely with trust, a kiss, and a money deal. The same features of business transactions most of us use everyday, although we might replace the kiss with a handshake. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Wednesday – Judas with the bag…
The difference between how betrayal was seen in Chesterton’s day when the name ‘Judas’ was still used as a public epitaph and ours is telling. It is reminding us that the atmosphere has changed. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Tuesday – The traitor is always a friend…
In this story of Holy Monday, that is the point being illustrated by Judas and Mary. Judas is overlooked and given too much trust while Mary is overly suspicioned and not given a fair assessment of character. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Monday – A Deadly Ultimatum to the World
For in one week the same crowd who hailed him with palm leaves at his feet, became a mob at the end of the week on Good Friday, and called for his death on the Cross in fulfillment of scripture. It is a lesson for all of us about the costs of loyalty and constancy and resisting political fear for what is true. Continue reading Lent/Holy Week: Palm Sunday
God give us spiritual sight in order to know the truth. Continue reading A Season of Lent: Spiritual Sight
When he was 16 years old, even before he became Catholic, the young Chesterton wrote a poetic devotion to Mary Continue reading A Season of Lent: THE ANNUNCIATION
Holy Week is getting nearer, just as in our daily lives, Christ’s return is getting nearer. Truly then all things will be made new by our faith in Christ. Continue reading A Season of Lent: Renewed By Faith In A Faithless World
The saints before us learned that persevering prayer is the place of rejoicing – even in tears – and the most confident of places to be when our confidence is in the Lord alone. Continue reading A Season of Lent: Humble and Persevering Prayer – the Answer To Hopelessness
Chesterton understood that real repentance must, like love, be sincere. It’s the other side of the real and lasting forgiveness which heals. Continue reading A Season of Lent: Forgiveness and Healing – How It Sets Us Free
He held that eternal innocence to be an actual and even an awful thing. He would not have seen anything comic, any more than the Christian Evangelist saw anything comic, in talking about the Wrath of the Lamb. Continue reading A Season of Lent: The Wrath of the Lamb – a Christian Paradox
While this is often a day of green beer and celebrations, it was not always so. The life of Patrick teaches us the exact opposite. It was a life of submission to the Christ. It was a life of courage and forgiveness lived out by coming back to Ireland, from his native England, to invite his former captors to taste and accept the freedom of Christ. Continue reading Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Duit!
