This reflective time of Advent teaches us that religion is the practice of our faith. It is the action behind our profession that we believe Christ so that others can believe us about Christ. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: A CRASH OF BRASS
G. K. Chesterton had a life long love of St. Nicholas, whom he called Santa Claus, after the Dutch fashion which soon became the ubiquitous moniker for St, Nicholas in the West. In fact, he confessed as he got older, Santa Claus became more not less real to him. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: THE FEAST OF SAINT NICHOLAS
The old song says: “We need a little Christmas. Right this very minute!” But God is telling us that we need a little trust and patience. Child-like trust and the paradox of adult patience. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: GUARDING THE QUITE CLEAR BLACK LINE
May you and I receive the spiritual gifts of peace and comfort from our loving and merciful Lord and Savior that comes with the freedom of repentance! Peace be with you! Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: SECOND SUNDAY – WITHOUT REFERENCE TO FORM
The protection against madness is your joy. Don’t ever lose it. Most people who have gone mad have lost their joy. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: WONDER, JOY, MYSTERY AND SANITY
None of our present problems, none of the problems to come are without an answer – and it is found on the altar of Christ. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: ON A THOUSAND ALTARS
Those that leave love, that leave us, that leave God, always create sorrow for those they leave. But in that pain, in order for love to succeed and to be sincere, we must hate what is bad and remain true to God and the truth. That is the ultimate paradox of love and loss we face in this life journey on earth to heaven, in this Advent journey to Christ now. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: LOSS ALONG THE WAY
In this Advent, our impelling power to journey is the love of God, no matter what may come. Because we know where it leads. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: TO JOURNEY DELIBERATELY
Contra mundo. It means “against the world”. And that is what the Christian brotherhood is supposed to be so that we can in love and charity be the salt of the earth and the light of the world in its darkness. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: CONTRA MUNDO
As we become introspective, we see things along this new journey over familiar ground that we may have missed. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: LOOK AGAIN
We begin our journey with gratitude from Thanksgiving and the first stop in our journey is lit with the candle for hope on our way to the wonder that is the birth of Christ. Continue reading A CHESTERTON ADVENT: FIRST SUNDAY
“Gratitude, being nearly the greatest of human duties, is also nearly the most difficult.” Continue reading A Hymn of Thanksgiving
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a man is not a man without his body, just as he is not a man without his soul. Continue reading All Souls Day
Today the Church honors all those who are with God, the innumerable men and women, the “great cloud of witnesses” (Hebrews 12:1-3) who chose fidelity to Christ Continue reading All Saints Day
Halloween is not a time for the stories macabre but a time to light the candles for the dead. Come, mes amis! Let us do so.” ― Agatha Christie, Hallowe’en Party Continue reading All Hallows Eve
And the Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss,
And called the kings of Christendom for swords about the Cross Continue reading He smiles, but not as Sultans smile…
The only nation in the world that is founded on a creed… Continue reading Happy 246th Birthday, America!
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
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
Veni Sancte Spiritus, et emitte caelitus lucis tuae radium! Continue reading PENTECOST!
What we call Memorial Day now was originally called ‘Decoration Day’ and was meant to remember the fallen on both sides of the Great Civil War and to heal us. Continue reading MEMORIAL DAY
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 : THE OCTAVE
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: SEVENTH DAY
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 : SIXTH DAY
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: FIFTH DAY
The Resurrection is of faith and not of any false analogy from the senses or the seasons. Continue reading EASTERTIDE: FOURTH DAY
“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 : THIRD DAY
Will we be the first in our day to tell those we know and those we don’t of Christ’s victory over death for all eternity? Our world needs to hear of this hope especially now! Continue reading EASTERTIDE : SECOND DAY
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
We enter the tomb as we enter The Great Silence… Continue reading HOLY WEEK: HOLY SATURDAY
We cannot save ourselves. The Cross was and is the only way out of our dilemma. Continue reading HOLY WEEK: GOOD FRIDAY
On this Holy Thursday, this Maundy 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
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: SPY WEDNESDAY
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 common societal atmosphere has changed to one like the spirit of Judas. Continue reading HOLY WEEK: HOLY TUESDAY
In this story of Holy Monday, Judas is casually accepted and given too much trust while Mary is overly suspicioned and not given a fair assessment of character. And Jesus, at that moment, is in more need than the poor. Continue reading HOLY WEEK: HOLY MONDAY
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 HOLY WEEK : PALM SUNDAY
When he was 16 years old, even before he became Catholic, the young Chesterton wrote a poetic devotion to Mary Continue reading LENT: THE ANNUNCIATION
Unless we repent, we too will all perish. Continue reading LENT: CHANGING OUR MIND FROM FREEDOM TO SIN TO FREEDOM FROM SIN
Fathers are to set the example of faith and righteous obedience to God for us in the family. Fathers, ask St Joseph to help you. Continue reading LENT: THE SOLEMNITY OF ST JOSEPH
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. Continue reading LENT: ST. PATRICK’S FEAST DAY
The charity we hold out to our fellow man at large, to give the help or the forgiveness that is undeserved, is not looking for justice just yet; it is looking to God… Continue reading LENT: CHARITY
Humility is the state, accompanied by prayer and hope, in which we see great things as did the saints when they saw visions Continue reading LENT: HUMILITY, PRAYER and HOPE
Only God Lifts the Veil Over Our Eyes So That We Can See The Truth: The Opportunity of Everlasting Life and Real Peace Through Christ’s Kingdom and Not This World
Continue reading LENT: LIFTING THE VEIL
Christian obedience is well-considered and aware of the cost. It is an act of trust in someone we know to be trustworthy, our Lord, Jesus Christ. Continue reading LENT: GALLOPING TO GOD – THE REAL VISION OF OBEDIENCE
We need humility to give us strength for the Lenten Journey to see what God wants us to see…. Continue reading LENT: THE BREAD OF HUMILITY; THE MOTHER OF GIANTS
As we begin Lent, may we repent and live the holy lives for Christ He has called us to live… Continue reading LENT: REMEMBER THOU ART DUST
Strangely or not, St. Valentine’s Day, the day we think about love and pleasant feelings also began in the death of this saint – for marrying Christians! Continue reading ST. VALENTINE: LOVE , MARRIAGE, AND DEATH
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