The man knew his mother and all of her siblings, his aunt and two uncles, had aortic aneurisms and that one of his aunts, Aunt
God’s flow is like a divine, one-way tractor beam sent by Him from His heaven and enveloping each person He has created. It has His
It’s that ‘full of wonder’ time again. Mary said, “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to
Edna May? There was a time when people knew, whom many then considered to be, the globally-recognized No. 1 A-list entertainer celebrity in the world,
Thank God for the Jews! God the son, God almighty, the Christ – the Messiah, Jesus was a Jew, is now a Jew, and will
To read Part I In this Catechism’s section on the Eucharist, Part Two, Section Two, Chapter One, Article 3, the Catechism never refers to the
At a dinner party in 1950, Mary Flannery O’Connor [“Flannery” to her friends and now to countless appreciative readers], heard then-famous author [never heard of
The Virgin Mary herself in the year 1214 A.D. gifted St. Dominic, and all of us, with the rosary. He and his fellow priests had
There is no certain answer to the question, “Was St. Peter present when Jesus was crucified?” None of the Gospel accounts says that Peter was
One response when one hears or encounters something that is outlandish or blatantly false is to say to the source, “Get real!” This is a
God created time out of nothing. Before He created everything and everyone, there was no time. After the end of the world, there will be
At the moment of conception of every human being there is a light show set off from the fertilized egg that announces that there is
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225 Anno Domini to 1274 Anno Domini) wrote a poetic prayer in Latin which has come to be known by its first
The Scottish proverb, “Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead,” has become a popular toast. The Bible includes several
He Must Increase, I Must Decrease The Isenheim Altar Piece is a famous series of paintings by Matthias Grünewald done in 1512-1516 A.D. He painted
The Mass, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, when ordered and offered in accord with John the Baptist’s statement, “He [Jesus] must increase and I
There is so much that we do, often in starting something or in finishing something, when we make the sign of the cross and say:
When God made you, when He made the new, unique, human person that you are, an ensouled body, an embodied soul, He made everything that
God our Father is also a loving, doting, proud Papa who wants each of us to spend eternity smiling, laughing, playing, and happy with Him.
Jesus used the word “church,” singular, not plural. Not a Mother Church with 24,000 “denominations” or franchise locations. Jesus has one, and only one, Church.
Miracles happen every day. My daughter was driving us to a shopping center and the parking lot was full. I told her to just go
Now that I have your attention: The above title is taken from an article earlier this year in the New Oxford Review; “Will There Be
