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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.”
I’ve always been perturbed by the choice of August as the month where our children return to school. My own experience, whether in grade school, high school, college or seminary, whether in England, France or Switzerland, was that Back-To-School was synonymous with the first week of September. But here, for
We’re all well aware of the phenomenon that has been sweeping the country for the past few years in which people suddenly make the decision that they are “woke.” As normal people, we shudder at their rejection of all reality as they vie with each other to invent new mental
Thank God we’re not like other people. Thank God we’re not like the arrogant publican in today’s gospel! Like him, it’s so very easy to look around us, especially in today’s morally bereft world, and say to ourselves, or even openly to others, these words that our Lord rejects as
Faster, higher, stronger—the motto of the Olympic Games, which are now taking place in Paris, France. Some of you may have been unfortunate enough to have witnessed the opening ceremony on Friday, in which we were meant to understand that the Olympics has lost all connection with athletics. Instead we
Amongst all the Gospels of Trinitytide, today’s stands out as unusual and even unique. No miracles take place and no parables are told and explained. Instead we get a glimpse into the human emotions of our Lord followed by another glimpse, this time into his divine nature as he foretells
The Matins readings this past week were concerned with the death of King Solomon and the behavior of his successor, his son, Rehoboam. The last years of Solomon had seen the reign of the old king descend into tyranny, and when he passed on, the people looked to his son
Today’s Gospel isn’t the easiest of our Lord’s parables to understand. We have the story of the unjust steward who wastes his master’s goods. When he’s told he may no longer be steward, the man has to think fast to avoid financial ruin. So he changes the figures on the
I was looking this afternoon for a modern example of an unjust steward, someone who, like the protagonist in today’s Gospel parable, makes friends with the mammon of unrighteousness to achieve a higher purpose. I didn’t have to look far. At 4pm on Saturday afternoon, I turned for inspiration to
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.” Well, there’s some good news this week. That message about wolves in sheep’s clothing that I’ve been talking about regularly for a long time now—the time has come when we no longer need
There’s an ancient Chinese curse, “May you live in interesting times.” I think we’d all agree that we do live in interesting times, much too interesting. Both Church and State give us cause for great anxiety. First, we get the news that Archbishop Vigano is being excommunicated for having called
If today were any other day than Sunday, we would be celebrating the Commemoration of St. Paul the Apostle. This great saint was martyred on June 29 in Rome along with St. Peter, and this week we will continue celebrating the octave of their feast. Saints Peter and Paul are,
As we celebrate the feast and octave of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul this week, our attention turns to the Eternal City of Rome. For it was here that the two apostles were martyred on the same day of June 29 in the year of our Lord 67. At
“But even if we or an angel from heaven Should preach to you a gospel other than the one that we preached to you, let that one be accursed. As we have said before, and now I say again, if anyone preaches to you a gospel other than the one
Did you ever wake up one morning and suddenly realize that the world is completely upside down? Probably not, it’s usually a gradual process that instills itself in our awareness as one element after another of order and beauty in our life disappears to be replaced by ugliness and chaos.
Announcement regarding the start of the extrajudicial criminal trial for schism (Art. 2 SST; can. 1364 CIC) The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime
As you can see, we’re back in green vestments again after all the color changes of Lent, Easter and Pentecost. You might be wondering what this new season is called. It’s the longest season of the year, stretching from Trinity Sunday all the way to Advent. But does it have
One of our best-loved and yet often neglected traditions as Catholics is that of praying before and after we eat. We call this prayer Grace Before (or After) Meals. The word grace, as applied to prayer over food, means “thanksgiving” (from the Latin gratiarum actio and the Italian grazie, “thanks”).
A hundred sheep. One goes missing. Is this such a big deal? After all, that’s a lot of sheep, so many that you’d have a hard job counting them all before you fell asleep. But to a shepherd, at least to a true shepherd, the loss of just one single
The success of the Devil and his masonic agents in the highest positions of the Church has meant that we find ourselves today in the most perilous circumstances ever faced by the Catholic faithful. At no time before in our history have we been without the comfort of knowing that
We’re very happy on this Sunday within the Octave of Corpus Christi to welcome two young men to the Communion Rail for the first time. Here they will receive the closest union with God that is possible in this physical and material world. It is their first taste of divinity,
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