Month: May 2024

June 1-2: Preparing to Celebrate Sunday’s Mass

This weekend’s Feast of Corpus Christi is as much about hunger as it is about food. Around the Table of the Lord, we are always fed by Jesus’ self-sacrifice, but do we appreciate the longing we have in our hearts

May 30: A Day of Prayer

Again this year, as dozens of our young children were preparing for First Communion, we tried to be careful about the language we used around them. We regularly tried to insist that they not think about Holy Communion as something

May 29: Pope St. Paul VI

Elected in 1963, after the death of St. John XXIII, amid intense debates among bishops at the Second Vatican Council, Pope St. Paul VI inherited the difficult task of seeing the Second Vatican Council through to its conclusion in 1965.

May 28: Thought for the Day

In the 12th century, St. Bernard of Clairvaux said: “God is not loved without reward, even though God should be loved without thought of reward. True charity cannot be empty, but it does not seek profit, ‘for it does

May 27: Memorial Day / La Conmemoración de los Caídos

What we remember—and honor—on Memorial Day is heroic sacrifice. We acknowledge those who nobly gave of themselves, even unto death, for a purpose they believed was greater than themselves.

Since the days just following the end of the Civil War,

May 25-26: The Day of the Lord

The Holy Trinity, whose Feast we celebrate today, is beyond the reach of time and the grasp of human reasoning. Clearly, it is a central mystery of our faith. We can only fumble in the dark in search of glimmers

25-26 de mayo: El Día del Señor

Con demasiada frecuencia mucha gente considera a Dios como un Dios lejano, muy distante, y difuso, un Dios al que aparentemente es difícil acercarse, pero a quien retornamos cuando todo lo demás falla. ¡Ojalá fuéramos más conscientes de la realidad!

May 25: Preparing for Sunday’s Mass

In bygone times, practically everybody agreed about the existence of God. In those days, religious divisions came from conflicting beliefs about God, rather than any conflict between theism and atheism, or believers and unbelievers. This is not the case