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The Death of a Foundress, Venerable Catherine McAuley
On November 11, 1841, one hundred and seventy-nine years ago, our beloved Foundress, Catherine McAuley, left this earth and returned to the House of her Father. In a eulogy preached by the Reverend Myles Gaffney, Pastor and dear friend, he said, “Few left in this...
The Spirituality of Venerable Catherine McAuley
The spirituality of Catherine McAuley was formed in part by the difficult times in which she lived. As in our own time, political decisions on matters of religious expression had earlier created a society of intolerance and persecution. At the time, English monarchs...
Venerable Mother Catherine McAuley on the Happy Thought of Resurrection
In these last weeks of our liturgical year when the Church focuses on the Four Last Things, i.e., death, judgment, Heaven and Hell, it is interesting to look at how unafraid Venerable Catherine was and to reflect on her hopeful and peaceful anticipation of the...
The King’s Son Given to Redeem a Slave
The King's Son given to redeem a slave.1 Consideration of the human person may rightly (and surprisingly!) begin with God. Man is a created being, endowed with a spiritual soul. From philosophy we know that the soul is the “form” of the body, but what does this...
Saint Bernard says: Set Your Hearts on Glory
In this month in which we commemorate the great feast of All Saints, we are to remember that each of us is called to holiness, regardless of our state of life. We must all desire heaven, ultimate union with God. The Church gives us many agents, not the least of...
This November Extended Opportunities to Gain Indulgences
What is an indulgence? We read in the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1471: The doctrine and practice of indulgences in the Church are closely linked to the effects of the sacrament of Penance. "An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due...
Offering Our Suffering with Jesus to the Father
November is a time when we remember those who have gone before us in the celebration of All Saints Day (November 1st) and All Souls Day (November 2nd). This makes November a special time to focus our attention on the reality of the Church as the Church Triumphant...
He Became a Fitting Remedy for Our Need
“He remained what he was; he took up what he was not…to make possible the kind of remedy that fitted our human need.” On the feast day of our Lady of Mount Carmel (July 15), one of the main themes in the second reading of the Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the...
God Provides the Lamb
Take your son, your only son, whom you love…and offer him as a whole burnt sacrifice. These words, spoken to Abraham by God, must have been unbearable for him to hear. This was the child of promise, the son he loved, the sign that God would fulfill his word to make...