He Who Prays Learns Hope
A first essential setting for learning hope is prayer. When no one listens to me any more, God still listens to me. When I can...
Spes Nostra, Salve!
The Holy Father’s Encyclical Spe Salvi ends in a splendid prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Spes Nostra, Our Hope. One of the high points...
A Little Bit of Heaven Present on Earth
Monday of the Twenty-Third Week of the Year I Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Good Counsel Colossians 1:24–2:3 Psalm 61:5-6, (R. 7a)...
God Shows Us His Face and Opens to Us His Heart
Rather than preach my own homily this morning, I read the homily given by the Holy Father today at Mariazell. When the Successor of Saint...
Our Wounded God
Christ’s Holy and Glorious Wounds I was present in Saint Peter’s Square last Sunday when, in the course of Holy Mass, Pope Benedict XVI preached...
