Saturday Morning Walk and Some Liturgical Notes
Out the front doors of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and down the street, through the Chinese business section and the park, to Santa Maria Maggiore....
Pilgrimage to Manoppello: The Holy Face
I am profoundly grateful to Mother M. Clare Millea, A.S.C.J. for making possible a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of the Holy Face of Jesus at...
The Human Face of Divine Mercy
The painting (1488) is by Bartolomeo di Giovanni and was commissioned for the Hospital of the Innocents in Florence. The six-sided altar at the centre...
2 February, The Presentation of the Lord
Malachy 3:1-4 Psalm 23: 7, 8, 9, 10 Hebrews 2: 14-18 Luke 2: 22-40 Susception Day “We receive, O God, your mercy, in the midst...
The Reign of the Bambino
It is customary in Rome, and elsewhere in Italy, to keep the presepe (Nativity scene) up until the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord...