Overarching the debate about the vaccines and the ethical problems of how they were produced, America faces a more fundamental question: what is the greater good that we are striving for here? It must be said that America is a post-Christian society (Fulton Sheen remarked as much decades ago), and the good that comes about […]
A Catholic who publicly and obstinately opposes the truth regarding faith and morals may not present himself or herself to receive Holy Communion and neither may the minister of Holy Communion give him or her the Sacrament.
Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, April 7th, 2021
Our Quest for Happiness – The Effects of Baptism; The Secret of Mary – The Interior Practice of Holy Slavery of Love; Baptism of Desire Revisited. Aired 4/18
Aired 4/17
3rd and final part of the sermon of St. Leonard of Port Maurice nothing that, no matter how many are saved proportionally, if we are determined to be saved we will be. Aired 4/17
The biblical writers make many references to Angels, from Genesis to Revelation. The “three men” who visited Abraham may have been the archangels (“messengers”) Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, to announce that the same very elderly Sarah will indeed bear a child. Similarly, Gabriel plays a key role in the Annunciation to our very young Blessed […]
Aired 4/17
Five years ago, my aunt had to be put in a nursing home, and when we put her in the nursing home, my sister remembered, “where is that Jesus picture”, and Catherine always called it ‘that Jesus picture’. It was in an old ratty box, so it was falling apart. It was in terrible shape. We opened the box and took it out. The frame was all broken on the back. The image itself wasn’t even in the frame any longer, and we didn’t know what it was. We had never known. We knew my grandmother kept it around forever and that she got it from her mother and father, but nobody knew what it was. We knew it was important because it had a red wax seal on the front.
It is one of the Holy Face images from the original images that came about from the miracle of 1849 in St. Peter’s Basilica. At that time, the Pope had fled Rome because of a revolution that was threatening Catholic France and threatening Rome itself. And when he had he ordered Veronica’s Veil to be put on exposition for three days so that people could venerate and pray to save Rome, and on the third day the image on the veil began to glow and became lifelike, and the eyes were deep sunken and wore an expression of really great pain. And this stayed that way. The glow and the image stayed that way for three hours, and they rang the bells of the basilica so hundreds of people came to see what was happening.
Vicki Schreiner of the Archconfraternity of the Holy Face
