Torrens In Austro
1st Sunday of Advent Keep watch, the Lord is near. Such is the great lesson of this season of Advent into which we enter today – a season of preparation, of watchfulness, of penance, of intensified prayer, a time of grace which is given to us to make ready the way of the Lord. During […]
The Really Good News
Last Sunday after Pentecost On this last Sunday of the liturgical year, Holy Mother Church puts before our eyes the spectacle of the end of the world, the catastrophic cosmic upheaval and the tragic events which will precede it. A question arises: How does this somber news qualify as Gospel, that is, as “Good News”? […]
Rendering Caesar To God
22nd Sunday after Pentecost Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s. With these words, Our Blessed Lord affirms both the just autonomy of the civil order and its total dependance on God. Indeed, all things are God’s, including Caesar. Caesar’s duty is to provide for the […]
In Voluntate Tua
21st Sunday after Pentecost There was a man in the land of Hus, whose name was Job, simple and upright, and fearing God: whom Satan besought that he might tempt: and power was given him from the Lord over his possessions and his flesh; and he destroyed all his substance and his children; and wounded […]
Long Live Christ The King!
I am a King. For this was I born, and for this I came into the world, that I might bear witness to the Truth. Everyone who is of the Truth hears my voice. On the very day of the Annunciation, the archangel told Our Blessed Lady that the Child to be born would reign […]
Come To The Wedding Feast
God’s call goes out to all. Many, that is to say the immense multitude of human beings, are called, no one is not called to the celestial banquet. But Our Lord goes on: few are chosen – few are actually chosen to take part in it. We must ask ourselves: Why is this? Why does […]
The Chastity Of Judith
Clearly Our Blessed Lord has a soft spot in His Heart for widows. The distress of the widow of today’s Gospel touches His Sacred Heart and He raises her son from the dead. This widow is of course a type of the Church who weeps for her dead children, those who have lost the life […]
Your Father Knows
“Be not solicitous. Do not worry. Your Father knows what you need.” The words of today’s Gospel, taken from the Sermon on the Mount, are among the most familiar passages of the entire Gospel. They constitute part of the proclamation of the New Law, in which Our Lord presents himself as the new Moses, sent […]
Clothing Of Brother Anthony Mary (Xavier Piat)
7 September 2019 St Regina My dear Son, Once upon a time, in the early centuries of the Christian era, in a small town of Gaul, still under Roman occupation, there was a young girl whose name was Reine, Regina. She was of humble extraction, and yet she truly had the qualities of her name: […]