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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.”
Today is Rogation Sunday and marks the beginning of one of the Church’s shortest seasons, Rogationtide. This time of year takes us from the end of Eastertide proper and ends with the Ascension of our Lord into heaven, an event we celebrate this coming Thursday. Rogationtide, which can be loosely
Whenever we receive a sacrament worthily we are infused with sanctifying grace. With this grace come the seven gifts of the Holy Ghost. The sacrament of Baptism is the first time we receive these seven gifts, and they remain within our souls, now temples of the Holy Ghost, for as
Man has always been fascinated by the possibility of a superhero—someone who has superhuman powers who can do things of which the rest of us are incapable. We look around us and we don’t find anyone remotely resembling this type of mystical being. And so we invent them, whether they
There’s nothing quite so terrible as the sight of a two-year-old having a temper tantrum. The spectacle of such extreme rage in one so young is quite frightening to a random onlooker and very embarrassing to the parents. Whole chapters of child-rearing advice manuals are devoted to this phenomenon and
It is the duty of every man and woman to pledge allegiance to the flag of his country. Patriotism is not an option for the Catholic, and no matter what might be the nation of our birth we owe to it our loyalty and service. Just as we must be
People have a very strong tendency to live their lives the way they want, without the slightest consideration of what effect their behavior has on the lives of others. How often do we observe the more selfish and unthinking among us forge ahead with our own agenda, crushing all in
Sheep have a very bad reputation for being dumb. They wander around the pasture, mindlessly chewing on the grass they walk on, with not a thought in the world for anything else. We sheer them every now and again for their wool, and eventually, we kill them for their meat.
The familiar story of Doubting Thomas makes its annual appearance this Low Sunday, the Octave Day of Easter. St. Thomas was not present for our Lord’s first manifestation to his apostles, making him the only one to miss having seen the glorified Body of the Saviour. He has not yet
The Sacrament of Penance is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church. We were taught the nature and purpose of each sacrament when we were in grade school, and then we go on to receive most of them during the course of our lives. When it comes to the
The Jewish tradition of the Passover Seder meal commemorates the deliverance of the Hebrew people from their slavery in Egypt. Moses had been trying in vain to persuade the Pharaoh to free them from their bondage, but in spite of commands by God himself to “Let my people go,” the
One of the most poignant moments in St. Matthew’s Passion comes in the Garden of Gethsemane when Our Lord is so overcome with emotion that he falls down on his face. And lying there on the ground, he manages to lift his head a little, and raise his voice to
As Christians we have the duty to follow Christ. This Holy Week we must again follow him where we do not want to go—the hill of Calvary with all its pain and suffering. We do so actively, by our own voluntary penances. But sooner or later we must also do
In my younger days I had a little issue with the Church every time Passion Sunday rolled around. Why, oh why, I wondered, on the very day when we’re supposed to be focused like laser beams on the Passion and Death of our Lord, did the Church cover up the
The first four weeks of Lent are a time for introversion—a turning inwards to review and subsequently improve the state of our souls. We think of our sins, our terrible ingratitude to God. We force ourselves to remember that the bodies we pamper so constantly are nothing but dust and
Several Sundays ago, we followed Our Blessed Lord into the wilderness. There we beheld the Son of God, as he undertook a long fast of forty days and forty nights. He went without food and drink, giving us an example of how we must subjugate our frail human bodies with
Without fully endorsing the person of Raymond Cardinal Burke, who, despite his many well-founded criticisms, remains convinced of the legitimacy of Bergoglio’s papacy, we are transmitting today to the faithful of St. Margaret Mary’s and of our online readership, the Cardinal’s call to pray a nine-month Novena to Our Blessed
“Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house divided against a house falleth,” words of our Lord in today’s Gospel. He made this declaration in answer to an objection that he is casting out demons in the name of the devil. Those who made this ridiculous
We live in a world of misguided experimentation. Every single day we are bombarded with the latest ridiculous attempts by the elite to test out their theories. And unfortunately, it is “we the people” who are the guinea pigs in those experiments. It doesn’t seem to matter how crazy the
First of all, my apologies for not being able to make it here last week. We were all ready to make the drive back to Ohio when the snow storm hit and we had to postpone. I hope you were all able to make up for the loss of another
One of the many heresies invented at the time of the Protestant Rebellion was the notion that man could be saved by faith alone. In spite of their protestations that their sole and supreme source of belief was “the Bible”, this heresy plainly goes against the words of Holy Scripture.
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