Readings: • Isa 11:1-10 • Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 • Rom 15:4-9 • Mt 3:1-12 If you saw John the Baptist preaching on a street corner, what might you think of him? He would […]
Readings: • Is 2:1-5 • Ps 122: 1-2, 3-4, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 • Rom 13:11-14 • Mt 24:37-44 Advent is apocalyptic. Perhaps you’ve never thought of it in that way. But the readings for this […]
“It might be said of Advent that it is not for the faint of heart. To grasp the depth of the human predicament, one has to be willing to enter into the very worst.” — […]
Readings: • 1 Sam 5:1-3 • Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 • Col 1:12-20 • Lk 23:35-43 “Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I […]
I Also Had My Hour: An Alternative Autobiography of G.K. Chesterton by Dale Ahlquist is a unique and engaging work: a retelling of Chesterton’s life in his own words, taken from hundreds of sources, and […]
Readings: • Mal 3:19-20a • Ps 98:5-6, 7-8, 9 • 2 Thes 3:7-12 • Lk. 21:5-9 By my highly unscientific estimation, the world has ended several hundred times in my lifetime, courtesy of nuclear war, […]
Readings: • Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 • Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 • 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17 • Jn 2:13-22 The great Temple of Solomon was built about a thousand years before the time of Christ. […]
The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released today a “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the Work of Salvation” (Mater Populi Fidelis), and it has raised a few eyebrows along with […]
Readings: • Wis 3:1-9 • Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6 • Rom 6:3-9 • Jn 6:37-40 “I’ve always had a hard time explaining purgatory,” the man said. “Didn’t the Second Vatican Council say that Catholics […]
Readings: • Sir 35:12-14, 16-18 • Psa 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23 • 2 Tim 4:6-8, 16-18 • Lk 18:9-14 Prayer is one of those mysterious actions that everyone knows about—how many people can honestly say […]
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