"My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Mk 15:34 The Cross is the great reminder that faith is not merely an exercise in spirituality. The idea of being spiritual but not religious goes way back to 2nd century gnostics, and expresses the thought that the body is...

"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do." - Jesus Lk 23:34 Back in 1997, a company focused on the future ran one of the oldest slogans from the past, namely to "Think Different". Like its original, the slogan was highly successful, and people flocked to...

"And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the chairs of them that sold doves. And He saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer;...

“A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them." St Dominic G.K. Chesterton once said that Original Sin is the easiest doctrine to prove because evidence of it is seen in every street. Presumably, he included...

"He said, “I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord," Jn 1:23 The voice in the wilderness did not come in anticipation to the nativity, but after the birth of Christ. It wasn't until about 30 years after, that the call to...

"To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.” Flannery O'Connor The trumpet is an instrument that has been used to announce cavalry charges, horse races, at army funerals and remembrance events, and is heard quite...

"The Virgin Mary, in her docile humility, became the handmaid of divine Love: she accepted the Father's will and conceived the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. In her the Almighty built a temple worthy of Him and made her the model and image of the Church, mystery...

"So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews." - John 19:40  Brothers, A recent two-year old study conducted by a team of Italian researchers (Dr Liberato de Caro), found that the...

"Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two...

"And at noon Elijah mocked them, saying, "Cry aloud, for he is a god. Either he is musing, or he is relieving himself, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and must be awakened.” 1 Kings 18:26-27 Brothers, Elijah's comic relief, in what was a very serious...