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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.”
No history of the Church’s devotion to the Sacred Heart would be complete without mentioning St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, patron saint of our chapel. Born in 1647, Margaret Mary was a nun of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary, who received apparitions of Jesus Christ in the Burgundian
Take a look around. What do you see? Four walls, windows, chairs with people sitting on them. And in front of you an altar with candles and candlesticks, a missal, a chalice covered in white. Let me ask the question a different way. What do you not see? And let
Lord, who at thy first Eucharist did pray that all thy Church might be forever one, Grant us at ev’ry Eucharist to say with longing heart and soul, “Thy will be done.” O may we all one bread, one body be, through this blest Sacrament of Unity. The words of
We would think that the Gospel for the feast of the Most Holy Trinity would be a long and complex explanation of the mystery of God’s nature, hard to explain and impossible to understand. And yet, the words chosen by the Church to unfold the divine nature of the Trinity
It is one of the devil’s most pernicious tricks to take the things of God and pervert them to his own purpose. We see it with the now familiar flag that turns the rainbow from a symbol of God’s covenant and union with man, to one of man’s sinful union
Finally, the wait is over. After the Apostles witnessed the Ascension of our Lord nine full days ago, they had returned to their familiar surroundings in Jerusalem, where our Lord had told them to wait in prayer until the promise of the Father should be fulfilled “not many days hence.”
Rather than explain the Seven Gifts and the meaning of each one, the following prayer will help us not only to understand what they are but also to acquire them in a way most pleasing to God. O Lord Jesus Christ Who, before ascending into heaven, didst promise to send
We read in the Acts of the Apostles that before he ascended into heaven, being assembled together with his apostles, Christ “commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.” What was that promise? That they should be “baptized with the Holy
We are presented today with a very ominous warning. Our Lord does not mince words when he spake unto his disciples and told them what was going to happen to them. “They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that
When we say our Rosary and meditate on the individual mysteries of Christ’s life, death and resurrection, we sometimes forget to step back and observe the bigger picture, missing out on some of the great messages the Rosary has to offer. And because the Rosary’s fifteen mysteries are so intimately
One of the musical highlights of last week’s coronation of King Charles III was at His Majesty’s entrance into Westminster Abbey to Sir Hubert Parry’s triumphant arrangement of the 121st psalm, the Laetatus Sum. This opens with the words “I was glad when they said unto me, We will go
(courtesy of ourcatholicprayers.com) Do you ever feel like you could use some help approaching God in your prayers? The Memorare is a prayer that reminds us that we have a wonderful advocate and protector in the mother of our Lord, the Blessed Virgin Mary. In our prayers to her we
When we pray, what do we say? We have a very strong tendency to reduce prayer simply to asking for things we’d like to have—to find things we’ve lost, to be able to pay the bills, for good health, and so on. But it would be wrong to confine the
Perhaps there’s a good reason God gave us two ears but only one mouth. His message there, I think, is that listening to others is twice as important as what we might want to say to them in return. It’s not that speaking is useless. On the contrary, we need
How many times in our life have we been admonished by those familiar words, “Patience is a virtue”? We remember those days well, when a loving but firm parent would not give us what we wanted the second we asked for it, but would teach us how to be patient
Our Lord warned his disciples that “a little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while and ye shall see me. Verily, verily, I say unto you, That ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice: and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow
It’s Good Shepherd Sunday, and our minds turn once again to this special role of our blessed Lord, who truly is the Good Shepherd, and of ourselves, who, equally truly, are his sheep. It’s important we put aside any misplaced feelings of superiority for a moment as we have a
St. George is an early Christian Martyr who lived during the Third Century and is thought to have died in Lydda, Palestine (now the city of Lod in Israel). His feastday is celebrated today, April 23. During the Middle Ages he became an ideal of martial valour and selflessness. He
We know the story all too well. St. Thomas the Apostle was missing the day our Lord appeared to the other apostles. When he finally showed up, he didn’t believe their tales of a “risen Lord”, telling them he would believe it only when he could place his fingers in
If I told you that a mass murderer was coming to your house for dinner, what would be your reaction? Would you make sure you take out your best china, create a banquet of culinary masterpieces, have the best wine prepared, and maybe even hire a team of servants and
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