Scripture tells us that Our Lord Jesus Christ is “the image of the invisible God,” and that each of us is created in the image and likeness of God. So we can see our soul as an image of Christ, who is the Image, or Word, the perfect expression of the Father. The early Christian […]

Today, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of St. Joseph, and the installation of Pope Francis as the 266th Bishop of Rome.  Happy Feast Day to all of us! St. Joseph is the Patron of the Universal Church, the Husband and Protector of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Patron Saint of a happy death (since […]

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Our Merciful Lord Jesus: I would like to wish each and every one of you a most holy and blessed Christmas.  May the Infant Christ fill your hearts and souls with His Peace and His Joy. St. Bernard of Clairvaux has a homily [in the Liturgy of the Hours for […]

“Viva Christo Rey!” — “Long Live Christ the King!” That was the cry of Blessed Miguel Pro and so many of our Catholic brothers and sisters in Mexico and in Spain during the persecutions of the Church in those countries in the 1920s and 1930s. After the recent elections in the United States, many of […]

I have visited some Catholic schools recently, and one of the major themes that I have been talking about with the children is the importance of “Lectio Divina,” or “Divine Reading.”  It is a an ancient, and yet still very valuable, form of Christian meditation.  At its essence, Lectio is a slow, prayerful reading of […]

Brothers and Sisters in Christ: Today, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Maria Goretti, a young girl who gave her life for Christ when she was only twelve years old.  Was she ordered to deny Christ?  No.  Was she commanded by persecutors to spit upon a cross (as often happened in other times, […]

Fear is a fundamental gift because it roots us in the truth about God and divine things. These things are terrible: the ways of God, the justice of God, the mercy of God, the silence of God, the holiness of God. They are beyond us, above us. A child has no fear amid terrifying and […]

“Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like the cross, divided minds as soon as it was announced… When the renegades had withdrawn, Jesus was left alone with the twelve apostles. Then he asked them this question, and it seems that our ears can still hear his supplicating tone: “Do […]