St Isaac the Syrian: Wonder and Amazement The Feast of St Isaac the Syrian is celebrated by the Maronite church on 23 August. He was born in modern-day Qatar, possibly […]
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Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost
Twelfth Sunday of Pentecost Introit O God, come to my assistance; O Lord, make haste to help me: let mine enemies be confounded and ashamed, who seek my soul. Let […]
Read moreReview of Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards (Third and Final Part)
Part two of my review of Matt Walsh’s Church of Cowards was, in parts, a meditation on Walsh’s insights. This third and final part will be more of a traditional […]
Read more“Church of Cowards,” Matt Walsh, Review (Pt II, “Judgment”)
This is the second of a three part review of this book. I won’t recap Part One. I will just leap into it. The book is really an essay on […]
Read moreEleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Introit God is in His holy place; God who makes men of one mind to dwell in a house; He shall give power and strength to His people. Psalm. Let […]
Read moreThe Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven
(Icon: Our Lord receives the soul of His Blessed Mother, shown as an infant in swaddling clothes) Why do we celebrate each year, on 15 August, the Feast of the […]
Read moreTenth Sunday after Pentecost
Tenth Sunday of Pentecost Introit When I cried to the Lord He heard my voice, from them that draw near to me; and He humbled them, who is before all […]
Read moreThe Season of Pentecost
“Pentecost” is the name of both a feast and a season of the liturgical calendar. As a feast, it is the second Sunday after the Ascension, itself forty days after […]
Read moreChurch of Cowards, Matt Walsh (Review, Pt I)
Matt Walsh, Church of Cowards: A Wake-Up Call to Complacent Christians, Regnery Gateway, Washington DC, 2020, 184 pp. plus notes, index and biblical index. This is a strong book by […]
Read moreThe Feast of the Glorious Transfiguration
The Glorious TRANSFIGURATION: 6 August “After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother of James, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. There […]
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