"O great mystery, and wondrous sacrament, that animals should see the newborn Lord, lying in their manger! Blessed is the Virgin whose womb was worthy to bear the Lord Jesus Christ. Alleluia!" Let us allow ourselves to be enveloped in the reality of this mystery! The...
As cases of COVID-19 continue to rise, the promise of upcoming vaccines is front and center in the media. Yet, with so much information from varied sources available it can be confusing to sort through the vaccines in development, their safety, efficacy and their...
The transforming power of the gaze of Jesus...Love's Vision This Christmas, I offer this reflection taken from a book written by Archbishop Luiz Martinez called Only Jesus. The first chapter of the book is called Love’s Vision. Let yourself be immersed in the...
Read this fascinating article about the research that lead to how messenger RNA (mRNA) was developed and then employed by Derrick Rossi to change adult stem cells to act like pluripotent embryonic cells. This is some of the research and development that has led to...
During Advent and Christmastide, which continues until the Baptism of the Lord, the Liturgy of the Church is rich with some of the most powerful readings of the year regarding the Incarnation, the plan of God to save man. For example, Pope St. Leo the Great writes a...
O come, Thou Wisdom from on high, Who orderest all things mightily; To us the path of knowledge show, And teach us in her ways to go. As we spoke of in the previous post, the cry of the ages was for a Redeemer to come and save us. The book of Sirach Chapter 24...
On December 8, 2020, on the feast of the immaculate conception, His Holiness, Pope Francis, issued an apostolic letter entitled Patris Corde. The Holy Father writes that “the aim of this Apostolic Letter is to increase our love for this great saint, to encourage us...
In his recent Apostolic Letter, Patris corde, Pope Francis told us, "God always finds a way to save us, provided we show the same creative courage as the carpenter of Nazareth, who was able to turn a problem into a possibility by trusting always in divine providence."...
Soaring numbers of cases of coronavirus, conflicts, and so many other problems, should we wonder if this is the end of the world? In the presentation (available here) by scripture scholar, Sister Anna Marie McGuan, RSM, the question of the end times is explored...
"You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand…Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."[i] “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God, and was going back to God, rose from...