Lord, in this holy Myst’ry we give our love to you. / Offering our lives completely, humbly in gratitude.” – Byzantine Catholic communion hymn. For the second year in a row, I am spending a little time every day reading from The Sunday Sermons of the Great Fathers. When, after years of searching for a…
Imagine spending your life contained inside an opaque bubble. Everything that you need – or, at least, everything that you think that you need – is there in the bubble with you. You were placed within the bubble when you were born, and since the day of your birth you’ve never had any interaction with…
Over the course of my lifetime, the Catholic Church has had six popes – St Paul VI, John Paul I, Saint John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Pope Leo XIV. Paul VI was pope when I was born, and I cannot say that I remember the elections of either John Paul I or…
The idea of union with God is, for most people, alternately attractive and terrifying. Attractive, because no matter how far we have fallen through the sin of Adam and our own personal sins, we cannot shake the feeling that such union is what we were made for by the very God to whom we desire…