This good and holy man guided the Church through the turmoil of the second World War. Much careful guidance he has left us, for example in his letter of the sacred liturgy, Mediator Dei. Some excerpts… “It is unquestionably the fundamental duty of man to orientate his person and his life towards God. ‘For HeContinue reading “Picture post: the Holy Father Pius XII (1939-1958)”
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The unifying love that is friendship (Sunday VI of Easter)
Cornelius, a leading character of our first reading this weekend, was a Roman, and so not Jewish, although not necessarily a pagan, for he was sufficiently devoted to the God of Israel to received the angelic vision that led him to call for the Apostle S. Peter. The Romans looked down upon the Jews asContinue reading “The unifying love that is friendship (Sunday VI of Easter)”
Forty days and forty nights (Sunday I of Lent)
And so we begin the forty days, or so, of Lent. As the gospel story indicates, our forty days is a shadow of His forty days, the period in which He prepared for his three-year mission of preaching and teaching and for His great Sacrifice with the retreat into the wilderness. “At this time, JesusContinue reading “Forty days and forty nights (Sunday I of Lent)”
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