Category: Priesthood

2008 World Day of Prayer for Priests

15 April 2008

Solemnity of the Sacred Heart Friday, May 30, 2008, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will be the Seventh Annual World Day of...

Living the “Totus Tuus”

13 April 2008

Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea Tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor Tuum, Maria. I am all thine, and all...

Visits

9 April 2008

This is the image of Saint Tarcisius that I brought back with from the catacombs of San Sebastiano in Rome. Back in the 1950s and...

Pope Benedict XVI on Priestly Spirituality

27 March 2008

A huge thank you to Sandro Magister for providing readers with the Holy Father’s six Holy Week homilies. His homily at the Mass of Chrism...

The Most Precious Blood

15 March 2008

One cannot enter into Holy Week without contemplating the adorable mystery of the Precious Blood. I am completely smitten by Bernini’s little known depiction of...

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