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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 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
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
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