There's something satisfying about sweeping, pithy indictments of all human thought. Take the following claim by Karl Marx, the father of Marxism: "Philosophers have only interpreted the world di...
“A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles . . . A Reading from the Acts of the Apostles . . . .” Yep, this will continue all Easter long. If we are an Easter people, and if Alleluia is o...
“Mr. Kowalkowski, put your name on the disruptor’s board,” said my third grade teacher. Sheepishly and with great frustration, I walked to the black board and wrote my name in chalk. It mea...
A year ago, when I was in the Novitiate, I went out with one of the elderly priests to help him get some things he needed. In the course of our errands, we stopped at a watch store. The man who w...
Poets, composers, painters, and other artists have long sought to capture the beauty of salvation in their creative endeavors. The Salve Festa Dies accomplishes something unique.
Christ has opened the gates of heaven, destroyed death, and welcomed souls into the joy of eternal life. Yet we’re not quite there; Earth is still our home. And so, we might understandably ask ...
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When Mary Magdalene saw that Christ’s tomb was empty, she couldn’t wait to tell Peter and John, so she ran (John 20:2). When these two heard about what Mary Magdalene had seen, they ran (John...
Editor’s Note: The following is based on a precious text of the Triduum, read as the second reading in the Office of Readings for Holy Saturday: an ancient homily for Holy Saturday (which we st...
“We do what!?” I thought. “Isn’t this idolatry!” But there it was “All, after genuflecting to the Cross, depart in silence.”
In the ancient days of Adam, the hands of the first man fashioned a cup, for the Edenic liturgy of Divine Love (Gen 2:15). Whether made from the heart of the first tree, �...