Quote of the Week | June 19, 2023

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the...

Offer no resistance.

SAINT ROMUALD, ABBOT (OPTIONAL MEMORIAL) Offer no resistance.  A young man grew up observing and, at times, even participating in violence against people who didn’t share his faith. At one point, however, a Christian, at great personal risk to himself, reached out and...

God is love.

THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS (SOLEMNITY) God is love.  When John writes that God is love, he doesn’t leave us wondering what he means. Instead, he explains how God’s love was revealed to us: “God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through...

Leave your gift there at the altar

10TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled.  Any Jew who wanted to offer a sacrifice “at the altar” (Matthew 5:24) would have had to travel to the Temple in Jerusalem to do so, no matter where he lived. There were no...

I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.

10TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.  It’s a common theme in romantic novels and movies: after experiencing many ups and downs, a young man realizes that a certain young woman is the “missing piece” he had been searching for all along....

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