"Before the Blessed Mary could be Mother of God... she was set apart, sanctified, filled with grace, and made meet for the presence of the Eternal." Image: La Inmaculada Concepción, Francisco Rizzi, (Source: Wikimedia commons) Editors' Introduction The gospel of the third Sunday in Lent ends with the following verses: "And it came to pass, …
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"As literal madness is derangement of the reason, so sin is derangement of the heart, of the spirit, of the affection." Image: The Transfiguration of Christ, Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), (Source: Wikicommons) Editors' Introduction The gospel of the Second Sunday of Lent is the account of the Transfiguration. At first glance this may seem an …
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"We must surrender to Him all we have, all we are. We must keep nothing back." Image: Temptation of Christ, Félix Joseph Barrias, (Wikicommons: source) Editors' Notes The season of Lent is a season of fasting. Even a cursory glance at the Collects of the Roman Missal will reveal that the Church assumes that the faithful …
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"I finish by declaring before God and ready to appear before Him, that I do not reproach myself for any of the crimes which are brought against me." Image: Funerary monument of Louis XVI & Marie-Antoinette. Wiki Commons As many know, January 21st marks the anniversary of France’s regicide. King Louis XVI of France was …
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"His is an omnipotence which can swathe itself in infirmity and can become the captive of its own creatures." Image: Adoration of the Magi, Edward Burne Jones, (Wikipedia Commons: source) Editor's Introduction Today is the great feast of the Epiphany. The word, as many of us know, means an appearance or manifestation. The feast is …
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"He brought from Rome what he found in Rome" The WM Review is pleased to publish a fascinating letter written by Bishop William Bernard Ullathorne, in defence of John Henry Newman’s writings on the Blessed Virgin Mary in his 1866 work Letter to Pusey. Ullathorne was the Bishop of Birmingham, the diocese in which Newman lived and ministered.
"Be it known to you, that I am now a Christian, and bound by Christian duties." Introduction At his trial on 20 November 1587, after hearing that he had been sentenced to death for treason, the Jesuit missionary priest, Edmund Campion, delivered a final oration to the court, in which he declared: “In condemning …
"I finish by declaring before God and ready to appear before Him, that I do not reproach myself for any of the crimes which are brought against me." As many know, January 21st marks the anniversary of France’s regicide. King Louis XVI of France was condemned to death on January 20th 1793, and the next …
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