Is it time for the ‘Benedict Option’?
By David Cooley. St. Benedict of Nursia was born around 480 AD; those were not easy times. Twenty-five years earlier Rome was sacked a third time, this time by the […]
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A reflection for Catholic Schools Week 2021
By David Cooley. When focused on educating and exercising the minds, bodies and souls of today’s youth, Catholic schools shine as beacons of light in a dark and confusing world. […]
The Holy Innocents and Tragedy’s Role in Redemption
By David Cooley. The liturgical Christmas season is really a beautiful and interesting time of year. While the secular world has the tendency to let go of the joy of […]
This Advent, wait with Mary for the coming of Christ
By David Cooley. The Immaculate Conception is a beautiful solemnity that the Church celebrates each year on December 8. On this day we commemorate the fact that Mary was graced […]
Thomas Aquinas’ Mystical Experience
By David Cooley. I hope that the brief theological insights in these pages bring comfort and a greater awareness of the fact that, as Cardinal Robert Sarah wrote in his […]
The richness and beauty of the Eucharistic prayers
By Father Joseph Gallenstein. In his exhortation at the end of the Synod on the Eucharist in March 2007, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The spiritual life of the faithful can […]
Eucharistic hymns and Catholic theology
By Father Stef Bankemper. In this installment of our series on the Eucharist we turn to Eucharistic hymns. It is a vast topic, so must be severely limited in a […]
‘O Come Let Us Adore Him’
By Deacon Peter Freeman. The Eucharist is Jesus truly present – body, blood, soul and divinity. At the moment of consecration during Mass, the “gifts” of bread and wine are […]
‘My Body … given up for you’
By David Cooley. The celebration of the Eucharist goes back to the Last Supper that Jesus had with his Apostles. However, the memorial of the Eucharist is more than just […]
The Eucharist — The font of the Holy Spirit
By Father Ryan Maher. “I will be with until the end of the age” (Mt 28:20). Our Blessed Lord spoke these words to his disciples before he ascended to his […]