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The Powerful Protection of Saint Joseph

Plus: Lent and the Virtue of Charity

March 17, 2024

Seeing What’s There

Peter talks about the reality of God and the willingness or not to see when he reveals Himself.

March 16, 2024

Forgiveness

March 2, 2024

Annunciation House

Kathleen Maloney talks about her work with Annunciation House in El Paso and the work of a man called The Little Saint, who is working hard to help the poor and needy. Episode Links https://annunciationhouse.org

March 2, 2024

https://novena.cardinalburke.com/

Nor’easter a No-Show at WQPH’s bustling Shrove Tuesday Brunch

Deo Gratias and our thanks to all our listeners and supports who braved threat of a much-hyped storm to attend our First Annual Shrove Tuesday Brunch at Slattery’s Restaurant in Fitchburg on Tuesday, February 13, 2024. Our ever-faithful event MC Peter Ingemi was undeterred in his commitment to hosting the brunch. The night before, he […]

February 19, 2024

A Tribute to Connie Murphy

Remembering Connie Murphy, our dear friend, cohost, much loved pro-life advocate, and partner of Cathleen Murphy. Highlights from his funeral at St. Joseph’s Church, including the Singing Grandpops.

January 20, 2024

“Be Not Afraid” hymn performed by EWTN Daily Mass Choir for the September 17th Sunday Mass

Massachusetts parishes adorn themselves with large, outdoor Divine Mercy images

Sponsors have raised funds to install large Divine Mercy images in various parishes in Massachusetts. Churches in Fitchburg, Salem, Malden, Somerville, Medford, and Cambridge have installed or are scheduled to install the images. One or more images can be secured to the church’s exterior of choice. The images are installed by divinemercy33.org, a Chicago apostolate, […]

September 12, 2023

We are told that the Church which we profess, in communion with our ancestors in the faith from the time of the Apostles, to be One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic is now to be defined by synodality, a term which has no history in the doctrine of the Church and for which there is no reasonable definition. Synodality and its adjective, synodal, have become slogans behind which a revolution is at work to change radically the Church’s self-understanding, in accord with a contemporary ideology which denies much of what the Church has always taught and practiced. It is not a purely theoretical matter, for the ideology has already, for some years, been put into practice in the Church in Germany, spreading widely confusion and error and their fruit, division – indeed schism – , to the grave harm of many souls. With the imminent Synod on Synodality, it is rightly to be feared that the same confusion and error and division will be visited upon the universal Church. In fact, it has already begun to happen through the preparation of the Synod at the local level.

Only the truth of Christ, as it is handed down to us in the unchanging and unchangeable doctrine and discipline of the Church, can address effectively the situation by uncovering the ideology at work, by correcting the deadly confusion and error and division it is propagating, and by inspiring the members of the Church to undertake the true reform which is daily conversion to Christ alive for us in the Church’s teaching, her prayer and worship, and her practice of the virtues and discipline. 

Cardinal Ramond Burke

There is nothing in the holy, inspired Scripture about the death of Mary, the holy Mother of God; but we know from ancient and wholly reliable tradition that at the time she so gloriously fell asleep, all the holy Apostles, who were traveling the world for the salvation of the peoples, were lifted up in a single instant of time and were gathered at Jerusalem; and as they stood by here, they saw a vision of angels, and heard the divine chanting of higher powers. So it was that she gave her soul, in an ineffable way, into God’s hands, surrounded by the glory of God and all heaven. Her body, which had been God’s dwelling place, was brought for burial amidst the singing of the angels and the Apostles, and laid to rest in a coffin in Gethsemane; and the angelic dancing and singing continued without pause in that place for three days. But after three days, the song of the angels ceased; the Apostles were there, and since one of them–Thomas–had not been present [for her burial] and came at the end of three days, and wished to reverence the body which had housed God, they opened the coffin. And they could not find her body, which had been the object of such praise; all that they found were her burial wrappings. And being overcome by the ineffable fragrance that came out of the wrappings, they closed the coffin again. Amazed by this miraculous discovery, they could only draw a single conclusion: the one who had deigned to become flesh in her own person, and to take his humanity from her, the one who willed to be born in human flesh as God the Word, the Lord of glory, and who had preserved her virginity intact even after childbirth, now chose, after her departure from this world, to honor her immaculate and pure body with the gift of incorruptibility, and with a change of state even before the common, universal resurrection.

St. Juvenal, archbishop of Jerusalem, before the Council of Chalcedon of 451, as quoted in Euthymian history

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