Ave Verum Corpus
Sacrilege Will the distressing news of the sacrilege perpetrated in Pamplona, Spain provoke any kind of concrete response? Spanish “artist” Abel Azcona stole more than...
The terrible glory of the priesthood
Reading Canon Eugène Masure’s book, Parish Priest (Fides, 1955) I came upon this remarkable passage: It is not only at the Last Supper and on...
Prayer of a Priest
Convert Thou me entirely, O my beloved Jesus, that I may live every moment— up to and including the very moment of my death —...
Holiness through a tangle of thorns
She had a vision of a young man who, in order to guide her through the tangle of thorns that surrounded her soul, took her...
The Grace of Knock and the Priesthood
In the Archdeacon’s Room Seven years ago, on the evening of February 5, 2008, I prayed in the room where The Venerable Archdeacon Bartholomew Cavanagh,...