“Archbishop Fulton Sheen esteemed the enormous value of the laity’s voice: ‘Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to the people. You have the minds, the eyes, the ears to save the Church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops and your religious act like religious.'”

(quoting Archbishop Sheen in his address to the Supreme Convention of the Knights of Columbus in June 1972.)

Second Sunday of Easter 2025

“Our birth would have been no gain, had we not been redeemed.” (taken from the Exsultet/Easter Proclamation)

Easter Sunday 2025

CELEBRATION OF PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF OUR LORD

HOMILY OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI

St Peter’s Square
27th World Youth Day
Sunday, 1st April 2012

Palm Sunday Homily by His Holiness Benedict XVI

“Judge me, O God, and distinguish my cause from the nation that is not holy: deliver me from the unjust and deceitful man.” (Psalm 42:1)

Fifth Week of Lent 2025

“If I mention to a third party that I am discussing various aspects of my life with another, he will generally agree. It is a good idea: ‘You’re doing the right thing, and I’m glad you’ve found someone who can help you along.’ In a way, this will elevate me in his eyes. But if I tell him that I am going to confession and that it redeems me, this lessens my status in his eyes, for those who do not go to confession always have a great deal to say against it.”

(Adrienne von Speyr, Confession, p. 19)

Fourth Sunday of Lent 2025

“And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush; and he looked, and lo, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.” (Exodus 3:2)

Third Sunday of Lent 2025

“Love is not loved!”

(Jacapone da Todi [1230-1306] religious poet who became a Franciscan after his wife died.)

Second Sunday of Lent 2025

“It is fitting that it be recorded that the first Adam was cast out of Paradise into the desert, that you may observe how the second Adam returned from the desert to Paradise. . . .”

(Saint Ambrose, Exposition of the Gospel of Luke)

First Sunday of Lent 2025

“In order to finish His work He sent us the Holy Ghost. This Divine Spirit, who is none other than the substantial love of the Father and the Son, was not satisfied with instilling grace into our souls together with the infused virtues, especially divine charity, but gave Himself to us in order that we might not only enjoy His presence and possess His gifts, but even His very person.”

(Very Reverend Adolphe Tanquerey, The Spiritual Life, p.41)

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025

“With what assurance does that person pray who harbors animosity toward someone who has offended him?”

(Anonymous, Incomplete Work on Matthew, Homily 14)

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 2025