The Mysterious Sacramental Life of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
La prière, église Saint-Bonnet, Léon Augustin Lhermitte, Unknown (19th-20th c.) THERE IS a striking and mysterious similarity between the mortal life of Jesus Christ and His sacramental life. During His mortal life, from the Crib to the Cross, from His Birth to His Ascension, Jesus Christ lived on earth in poverty, in an almost unbroken silence, in every description of suffering, unknown, despised, neglected by nearly all mankind; and at last He was most cruelly [...]
Gaudéte Sunday — A Message from St. John Chrysostom
St. John the Baptist Preaching, Mattia Preti, ca. 1665 Translation From the Holy Gospel According to John At that time the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and levites to John, to ask him: Who art thou? And he confessed: I am not the Christ. And they asked him: What then? Art thou Elias? And he said: I am not. Art thou the Prophet? And he answered: No. They said therefore unto him: Who art thou, [...]