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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.”
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.
Throughout the ages, God has raised up men—learned doctors of the Church who fought against the errors of their times; or sometimes martyrs whose blood injected the Church with renewed life and who inspired the rest of us ordinary Christians with their courage and example. For the sixty or so
It’s a very strange thing, when you think about it… When we’re presented with something truly wonderful, something that will transform our lives into one of peace and happiness, something that will ensure a blissful future that can never be disrupted or lost, we don’t immediately rush to take advantage
One of the most popular games that they play at children’s parties in England is called the sack race. Like any other race, the purpose is to see who can get to the finish line first. The only difference is that all the competitors are wearing a large sack over
As we begin the season of Shrovetide, our annual preparation for Lent, we are invited to reflect on the inner workings of our soul and make sure they’re up to speed. We search within, contemplating what we find, and holding up our deepest thoughts, dreams and fears to the light
We have a tendency to treat Holy Scripture like any other book. We read the Gospel as though it was just someone telling us a story. A true story, to be sure, but merely the retelling of events that happened in the past and which are supposed to have some
We all learned the Ten Commandments when we were children. We can find them in our catechism, our moral theology manuals, and of course, in the Scriptural Book of Exodus. They were written by none other than God himself, miraculously engraved upon two tablets of stone and presented to Moses.
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