On the feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we remember the moment when Mary, at the age of three, was brought by her parents, Saints Joachim and Anne, to the Temple in Jerusalem. While this story comes from the early Christian writing Protoevangelium...
Last month on the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. preached the homily at a solemn Mass at the Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P., the pastor of the parish, then...
On the eve of the Annual Dominican Rosary Pilgrimage in Washington D.C., Dominican friars Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. and Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., gave a talk on the virtues of St. Pier Giorgio Frassati. The friars gathered with their audience after an hour of...
How close can a work of art get us to God? In the case of Benvenuto di Giovanni’s Christ in Limbo, the answer is pressingly close. The central drama of this medieval depiction of Christ’s descent to the dead involves two antithetical forms of closeness: one...
In this first episode of Aquinas 101: The Sacraments (Season 3), Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., explains why the Sacraments matter in the worship of God.