Saint Helena, Empress
The feast of Saint Helena is August 18th. When I lived at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme in Rome, it was celebrated with all due solemnity....
God: always more ready to hear than we to pray
La guarigione del sordomuto, Cristoforo de Predis, Milano, 1440-1486 11th Sunday After Pentecost Today’s Introit, well served by its sturdy 5th mode melody, is a...
I Will Have Mercy Upon Whom I Have Mercy
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska One might say that Saint Maria Faustina belongs to the spiritual family of the Little Thérèse whom we remembered last Sunday,...
Approach With the Fear of God and with Faith
Fourth Sunday After Pentecost [Thirteenth Sunday Per Annum B] Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 2 Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Mark 5:21-43 A Story of Two Healings Two...
Nolite obdurare corda vestra
This painting of Jesus preaching in the synagogue at Capernaum is the work of the Polish-Jewish artist Maurycy Gottlieb (1856-1879). Note that he depicts Our...