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The name Et Reliqua is taken from the Office of Matins, in which the commentary by the Church Fathers on the Gospel of the day is preceded by part of the Gospel itself. Rather than read the Gospel in its entirety, only the first sentence is included, followed by the words, Et Reliqua, translated into English as “And so on and that which followeth.”
There’s a temptation to be avoided when we read today’s Gospel of the Ten Lepers. We may be tempted to imagine that it’s just one of those nice little Bible stories, kind of like Aesop’s Fables, that are meant to give us a simple message: “And the moral of the
The recent Republican Primary Debate was a sobering reminder that the next race for control of the White House has begun. With this in mind, we would do well to re-examine the relationship between politics and religion, the better to understand how each is essential in our lives, albeit in
When I was at seminary, we were held to a very strict schedule every day. We always knew where we should be and what we should be doing, whether it was class, private study, prayer, meals, chores or recreation. After dinner every evening, we had such a period of recreation,
The last week of August is traditionally a time for mental shifting. As the last days of summer dwindle away, to be replaced next week by the beginning of colder and darker times, we feel within us a whole psychological modification. We feel the need for change, to say farewell
The world is full of important people. They are divided into two categories, those who are regarded as important by society at large, and those who are regarded as important only by themselves. Do you consider yourself important? If so, please know that you may be the only one who
I realized just the other day how old I am. I was born in 1955, which makes me 68 now. Not that old perhaps in these days of advanced medical technology where they manage to preserve us for longer than they probably should. But what made me think about the
106 years ago today, on the morning of August 13, 1917, the Mayor of Fatima sent his officers to kidnap the three children, Lucia, aged 10, Francisco, aged 9, and Jacinta, aged 7. After interrogating them, the next day he had them led into the public prison in Ourém. Imprisoned
I don’t know if any of you happened to read last Sunday’s Gospel while I was away on my travels? If you did, you’ll remember it described our Lord pausing as he made his way to the Holy City of Jerusalem, and, from a vantage point overlooking the city he
There comes a time in every man’s life when he feels the need to take a step back and examine his life. He looks to the ever-diminishing future with a correspondingly increasing interest in what comes next, asking himself the big question that has been so often relegated to some
One of the many things God can do that we can’t is to create something out of nothing. Sure, we imagine that we’re creating things—a chef who creates a great recipe, a writer who creates an epic novel, a musician who thinks up amazing melodies from the top of his
In a certain sense, all men and women are the children of God. As our biological parents are our father and mother in the natural and physical sense of the word, our Father in heaven has a far greater claim to paternity by bestowing on us an immortal soul. The
There’s an expression used in computer programming that always reassures me when I’m trying to create a new website. The phrase in question is often shortened to WYSIWYG—pronounced Wizzy Wig. It stands for “What You See Is What You Get.” When you’re dealing with computer graphics, fonts and typefaces, formatting,
“As the Church goes, so goes the world.” Since Vatican II, the non-Catholic and secular world has been experiencing a gradual moral decline. The 1960s saw a cultural revolution that was horrific to the God-fearing baby boomers who watched it happen. Drugs, moral depravity, left-wing politics—it all went from being
Like all sacraments, Holy Communion is an outward sign of an inward grace. In this case, the outward sign is the act of consuming a small white wafer. We’re aware, of course, that this wafer is actually the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord. Nevertheless, it’s the action
Wisdom is considered the first and the greatest of the Gifts of the Holy Ghost. It acts upon both the intellect and the will. According to St. Bernard, it both illumines the mind and instills an attraction to the divine. Adolphe Tanquerey OP explained the difference between the gift of
Christ left us with two great commandments, to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. These two commandments are fulfilled by our Blessed Lady in the first two Mysteries of the Rosary. With the First Joyful Mystery, we saw how Our Blessed Mother obeyed the first of these
At some point during our lives we’ve all asked the same question: Why don’t we receive the Precious Blood at Holy Communion? It’s a reasonable question if we don’t know our catechism—after all, the priest places the Host on our tongue as he says “May the Body of our Lord
If there’s anything consistent about us unstable and vacillating human beings, it’s this—we always, no matter what, want what we want. We desire all manner of things, some of them perfectly legitimate. We want to be able to breathe, to eat and drink, to sleep, to love. Sometimes, though, these
It’s a legitimate question. After all, what did we ever do to him? True, we don’t like him and we cast him out to hell whenever we need to, but the reason we act this way towards him is not the cause of his hatred for us, but rather the
St. John the Apostle wrote a great deal about the love of God. Amongst his writings are these famous words, “We love him, because he first loved us.” It’s a very simple yet profound sentence, taking us into the realm of cause and effect. What causes us to want to
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