Day Thirty Five | The Great Fast

We are now in the home stretch of Lent. It has been a while since the beginning of this season, and our weakness may now be very apparent. But this is not cause for discouragement!--let us turn anew to Christ!

Day Thirty Four | The Great Fast

It may be odd to think about it this way, but fasting is a gift.

Day Thirty Three | The Great Fast

In anticipation of Christ's Passion, we today meditate on the compassion of Mary, His mother.

Day Thirty Two | The Great Fast

Perhaps we can begin to view the hunger we feel during our fast as a sign of a deeper hunger inside of us - one that can only be satisfied by greater, spiritual food.

Day Thirty One | The Great Fast

"My deliverer from angry nations, you set me above my assailants..." The Lord is our deliverer, our liberator. He sets us free from sin, and from our unruly desires. Fasting is an exercise in this freedom.

O Rex Gentium

O King of the Nations and their desire, the cornerstone making both one: come and save the human race, which you fashioned from clay.

An Echoing Fiat

The feast of the Annunciation celebrates the very moment in which the divine and human natures came together in Jesus Christ.

The Veiling of Sacred Images in Passiontide

In a counterintuitive action, the Church has us veil the images that depict Christ and the saints during Passiontide. If we are focusing on His Passion, why are we veiling these images?

A Wonderful Exchange

God becoming man is only one side of the equation. He became one with us so that we could become one with him. God became man so that men might become gods.

True God and True Man

As unimaginable as it may seem, the unchanging God has taken to himself a human nature in order to suffer like us and for us.

Hortus Conclusus Es

The Song of Songs is on the surface a love poem. But there is hidden beneath the surface of these vivid images a profound revelation: that of God’s unfathomable love.

The Guadalupe Chapel - The Saints and Symbols of the Cupola

The scene depicted in the mosaic of the cupola, or dome of the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe is set against a background of gold. The gold, in keeping with the iconographic tradition, represents heaven.

A Reflection on the Significance of Sacred Vestments