Friday, November 22, 2019

"I myself saw her incorrupt" ~ November 22, feast of St. Cecilia

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Detail of Stefano Maderno's Saint Cecilia from AD 1600 — a year after the sculptor had seen the saint's incorrupt remains. Nove...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Nine Greatest Rulers of the Christian Roman Empire

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Click here to share on Facebook. The 4th through 7th centuries are often considered periods of decay and decline for the Roman Empire. I...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

"Dread Gehenna, and hold fast to Christ" ~ November 13, feast of Sts. Arcadius, Paschasius, Probus and Eutychianus

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Funerary mosaic of Natalica, a Christian girl of 10, from 5th century Roman or Vandal north Africa. November 13 is the feast day of Sai...
Monday, November 11, 2019

"To banish war, he must a warrior be" ~ Remembering Sgt. Joyce Kilmer on Veteran's Day

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Click here to share on Facebook. In honor of Veteran's Day, let us remember a soul so brave and so brilliant whose brief life-course...
Friday, November 01, 2019

For All Saints Day, read about the Saints to enhance your own faith

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Click here to share on Facebook. Wishing you a blessed All Saints Day! "I saw a great multitude, which no man could number, of a...
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

When the world demands acceptance, celebration...and the Eucharist

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The recent refusal of a South Carolina priest to give Communion to former vice president Joe Biden has brought back into the mainstream ...
Thursday, October 10, 2019

Who Was Christopher Columbus? ~ Hero or Villain? Criminal or Crusader?

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Statue of Christopher Columbus near the Cooper River, New Jersey. In January of 2018, vandals threw paint on this statue. Each year, th...
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Wednesday, October 09, 2019

New regalia. No Knights.

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I don't know who thought this was a good idea--but it's not. Our parish concluded our beautiful 40 Hours devotion with a glori...
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Monday, October 07, 2019

"Don John of Austria is going to the war." ~ October 7, feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

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Click here to share this image on Facebook. October 7 is the Feast of our Lady of the Rosary, formerly the feast of Our Lady of Victory....
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Monday, September 30, 2019

"You Urge Me to Make a New Work from the Old" ~ September 30, Feast of St. Jerome

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Saint Jerome instructs Saint Paula and Saint Eustochium in this 16th century painting by Francisco de Zurbarán. For this date in the ye...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

"Let Us Have No Mock-Emperors!" ~ The Battle of Mursa Major, AD 351

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The portly profile of Magnentius may be seen on this bronze follis from AD 352. On this date in AD 351, the armies of the Western usurp...