Category: Saints / Mary
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Pedro Arrupe on Inculturation
On the feast of Pentecost in 1978, he wrote a letter to all members of the Society of Jesus about inculturation which contains a definition of inculturation that almost every contemporary work on liturgical inculturation employ or at least makes mention of.
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Feast of Saint Benedict
Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ.
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Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley on John the Baptist
The wild man from beyond the borders of religious piety… of societal decency… invades Ordinary Time,
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Monday’s New Memorial: Mary, Mother of the Church
In 1964, at the end of the third session of the Second Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI formally declared Mary the “Mother of the Church.”
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Feast of Saint Matthias
Saint Matthias, Simone Martini, ca. 1317-1319 What solemn overpowering thoughts must have crowded on Saint Matthias, when he received the greetings of the eleven apostles, and took his seat among them as their brother! His very election was a witness against himself if he did not fulfill it. And such surely will ours be in our…
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Saints Philip and James
Saints Philip and James on the Maestá, Duccio di Buoninsegna, 1311 We see God now as in a mirror, that is, by analogies. Later, we shall see him face to face. … When we attain to the vision of God, we shall seek for nothing else. Then shall be fulfilled the text: You will fill…
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Feast of Saint Mark
Mark the Evangelist, unknown, Villach, Austria So brightly shone the light of true religion on the minds of Peter’s hearers that, not satisfied with a single hearing or with the oral teaching of the divine message, they resorted to appeals of every kind to induce Mark (whose gospel we have), as he was a follower…
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Saint Benedict and Good Zeal
“Earnestly competing in obedience to one another…”
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Feast of Saint Joseph
God grant us people with great vision!