The Votive Mass of Saint Joseph
On this first Wednesday after the Octave of the Epiphany, I will celebrate a Votive Mass of Saint Joseph. (Votive Masses are celebrations in honour...
Hastening to the Cross
Wednesday of the 1st Week of the Year II 1 Samuel 3: 1-10, 19-20 Psalm 39: 2 and 5, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10 (R. 8a and...
Banneux: Seventy-Five Years
The Other Marian Jubilee in 2008 2008 is the Jubilee Year of Lourdes: 150 years since the apparitions to Saint Bernadette. 2008 also marks the...
The Communion of the Saints
For bedtime reading over the weekend in New Hampshire, I chose Maurice and Thérèse, The Story of a Love, by Bishop Patrick Ahern. The following...
Saint John Neumann and the Quarant’Ore
An Adorer of the Blessed Sacrament Saint John Nepomucene Neumann (1811–1860), Bishop of Philadelphia from 1852–1860, was graced with an intense devotion to Our Lord...