The Dispatch
“Behold! I tell you a mystery!”
The mysteries of the Incarnation and Resurrection are re-presented in every celebration of “the sacred mysteries” – Holy Mass – as Jesus is born in […]
Easter
Features
Christ’s question to us during Holy Week: “Do you love me?”
Much of Lent is focused on Baptism, where our love affair with the Triune God had its beginning. The baptismal font, however, leads inexorably to […]
Essay
Holy Week: A biblical chronology and liturgical guide
“St. Athanasius calls Easter ‘the Great Sunday’ and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week ‘the Great Week.’ The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ […]
Carl’s Cuts
Carl’s Cuts: On Schmemann’s Lent, Billy Graham’s death, Madeleine L’Engle’s “Wrinkle”, and Cardinal Cupich’s column
Confessions, observations, and animadversions on this, that, and the other. […]
The Dispatch
Conscience and grace: A Lenten meditation
Christ promised to maintain his Church in the truth (John 8.32; John 16.3). Has that promise been broken? […]
The Dispatch
The Easter Triduum: Entering into the Paschal Mystery
Note: The following piece was originally written for the April 9, 2006, edition of Our Sunday Visitor newspaper, and has been posted on Ignatius Insight. I am posting it here for CWR readers who may have not seen […]