A Hidden Ministry By Blackfriars Staff It was 1977 when the steel mills began closing down in Youngstown, Ohio. Since then the city, once a locus of steel in America, lost more than half its residents. That means half the homes are occupied. Half as many...
It’s Eucharistic Revival Time By Blackfriars Staff “What is the Lord about to do in our country? Are we receptive to what the Lord wants to do in this National Eucharistic Revival?” These are questions Fr. Peter Martyr Yungwirth, O.P., pastor of...
Fruits of Contemplation By Blackfriars Staff As he tells the story, it simply dawned on Fr. James Brent, O.P., one Christmas Octave several years ago that God wants to raise up contemplative souls in the Church—people who have truly heard, and take...
Praying and Living the Easter Octave By Fr. Reginald Hoefer, O.P. This essay previously appeared in Dominicana and is reprinted with permission. Pope Benedict XVI describes the Resurrection of Jesus as an “evolutionary leap” in which a new dimension of human...
Pointing to the Reality at Hand By Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, O.P. For me, Holy Thursday has always held a special place in the Paschal Triduum. From my childhood, I was captivated by the unique Mass, where the rare use of incense added to the sense of...
