A Gift of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a celebration of the love he has for mankind, the love that moved him to give himself on the Cross at Calvary. This Solemnity is an appropriate time to recall...
Behold Your God: Seeing Jesus on Corpus Christi By Fr. Philip Nolan, O.P. “Look!” It’s a simple command that we give and receive all the time. Children point up to a distant airplane, trying to help their friends spot it among the clouds. Teachers instruct their...
A New Platform for the Gospel On the feast of Pentecost, the Church remembers when the Holy Spirit descended upon Our Lady and the Apostles, sending them out to proclaim the Gospel to all nations. So too, the Dominican friars have been sent into the world to preach...
Thinking at Eastertime about Heaven By Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. When did you last think deeply about heaven? Easter is an especially apt time to do so. Let’s think about what, if we get there, we will do. It’s not sleeping. It’s being fully alive. When Saint...
By His Death, He Saves Us By Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P. In the beginning, was the Word. “Let there be light.” And so it was. But goodness gave way to evil. We were free to love—free to not love. Light was our beginning. We preferred the darkness. And so the...