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We have internalized the myth of progress and utility. We not only
We have internalized the myth of progress and utility. We not only believe that the world and the things around us can be better, but that it is our G...

The Celebration of the Divine Liturgy The celebration of the
The Celebration of the Divine Liturgy The celebration of the Divine Liturgy requires an elevated soul, or a man with an elevated soul, not bound by ...

The Sacrifice of the Mass stands in contrast to this human
The Sacrifice of the Mass stands in contrast to this human limitation. We receive gratuitously what we have not merited: union with God, effected spir...

Forty seminarians of Mount St. Mary’s seminary travelled to the
Forty seminarians of Mount St. Mary’s seminary travelled to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon University last week for their New Evan...

Solidarity of the Solitary … praying for others is sharing in
Solidarity of the Solitary … praying for others is sharing in God’s desire to draw them to himself; it is also being in communion with those who ...

Behold the Face of your Christ, O Christian soul, and lift not
Behold the Face of your Christ, O Christian soul, and lift not your eyes without tears to His torments, lift not your contrite heart without compassio...

Dear Daughters of St. Philip Neri, God has begun a work in us
Dear Daughters of St. Philip Neri, God has begun a work in us that is beautiful - as Elisabeth Leseur tells us an interior evolution. God has begun ...

Catherine Mectilde de Bar is an icon of the kind of spiritual
Catherine Mectilde de Bar is an icon of the kind of spiritual motherhood needed in the Church today, not only in monastic and religious communities, b...

St. Isaac the Syrian once said: He who perceives his sins is
St. Isaac the Syrian once said: He who perceives his sins is higher then he who raises the dead by his prayer; he who has been vouchsafed to see himse...