We hear of this mystery as the Exultant sung by the Deacon during the Easter Vigil Mass. Speaking of Adam and Eve’s sin, the ancient words recall, “O happy fault which earned for us so great a Savor.”
We hear of this mystery as the Exultant sung by the Deacon during the Easter Vigil Mass. Speaking of Adam and Eve’s sin, the ancient words recall, “O happy fault which earned for us so great a Savor.”
Are you a friend of Jesus Christ? It is an acceptable time to ask during Holy Week, for love is demanding. For example, God asked Adam in the garden, “Where are you?” It wasn’t that God couldn’t see Adam hiding. The question begged a response, “Where are you with me?”
Take out your Bibles and observe an interesting phenomenon: the book of Esther is divided up into chapters that include both numbers and letters. Whoever heard of such a strange way of composing a book?
Sometimes the brokenness is outside of us. Perhaps it is brokenness in a marriage as in the case of Rita of Cascia, who became a saint; or the brokenness in a government, as in the life of our own Foundress, Mother Luisita, who is now a Venerable of our Church, soon to be a Saint.
I love the beginning of a new year, the time when we make a fresh start as we recalibrate and break up the soil of our souls to prepare for new seasons of growth.
The natural question that comes to mind after reading the parable of the two sons in the Gospel of Matthew is, “which one am I, the first or the second son?”
The natural question that comes to mind after reading the parable of the two sons in the Gospel of Matthew is, “which one am I, the first or the second son?”
It happened that a shaft of sunlight came in through one of our windows and looking automatically towards the light, hundreds of thousands of particles floating around in the air came into view….