The Way Out
Easter Sunday Throughout the past week, we have made an effort to explore the meaning of Our Blessed Lord’s passion and death, as well as what consequences it entails for the lives of those who believe in Him. When we arrive at the great feast of Easter, the greatest of all our feasts, we can […]
When All Is Lost
Paschal Vigil Among all the Biblical lessons Holy Mother Church gives us in this solemn paschal vigil, there is a common thread. God intervenes when all seems lost. From the first page of Genesis in which God unexpectedly – so to speak – draws being and order out of nothingness and chaos, to the Flood […]
Utterly Alone
Good Friday As the Passion of Our Blessed Lord progresses and the almost too-hard-to-listen-to physical sufferings are heaped upon Him in ever seemingly unbearable doses, at the same time, we see a growing isolation and abandonment of the Saviour. When Holy Week opens on Palm Sunday, we see Him surrounded with enthusiasm by huge crowds […]
Let the Two Be One
Maundy Thursday The first letter of the first word of the Canon of the Mass is a T. It didn’t take medieval Christians long to start seeing in that T a cross. Nor did it take artists long to start making that little T look like a cross, gradually adding the figure of Christ, then […]
Don’t Run Away From the Cross
Palm Sunday Only a very inattentive observer could fail to perceive the contrast in today’s liturgy. We began in triumph, processing with the palms of victory and the olive branches of peace and soothing mercy, singing the glory of Christ Our King with joy and jubilation. Like the Hebrews of that first Palm Sunday, we […]
The Word of the Cross
Passion Sunday With today’s liturgy, we enter into Passiontide, the two weeks leading up to Easter, and during which our thoughts and meditations are continually drawn into the mystery of the sufferings of the God-Man, Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are invited to contemplate more assiduously the crucifix, and yet the Church takes the crucifix […]
Glory and Riches in His House (Ps 110)
St Joseph These inspired words are perfectly adapted to St Joseph, who had in his keeping the Son of God and His Immaculate Mother, even though the world does not see this. We must have faith to see and understand his discreet but essential role in the life of Our Lord and Our Lady. When […]
He Knows What He Will Do
Laetare Sunday This Sunday, called Laetare from the first word of the introit, invites us to leave aside somewhat our Lenten mourning and hand our hearts over to rejoicing. What is the cause of our joy? We are going up to the House of the Lord, Jerusalem. All the chants of today’s Mass sing, indeed, […]
From Top to Bottom
Third Sunday of Lent There was a time when it was fashionable for certain intellectuals to launch against Christianity the scornful epithet of being a woman’s religion, a religion without guts. Frederich Nietzsche, in particular, made it one of his great battle cries, pretending that modern man has finally been freed from the wives’ tales […]