"Strengthen What Remains"
We are launching our Week of St Thomas Aquinas today, in honour of his feast (7 March), with this sermon by Fr Edward Leen CSSP, reprinted with permission from the Bellarmine Forums. Image: St Thomas, by Crivelli. Wiki Commons. St Thomas, Universal Doctor Fr Edward Leen – preached November 1923 SAINT THOMAS was born in …
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“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 …
The Rosary and Immaculate Heart: the Two Last Remedies Delivered at numerous pro-life rallies across Ireland in 2018. Edited for publication. It is not unusual for those fighting for any length of time in the pro-life, pro-family movement to be subject at certain times to the temptations of hopelessness and despair. It can often seem …
We are told that on 13 October 1884, His Holiness Pope Leo XIII had a vision in which he saw Satan ask God for one hundred years to the destroy the Catholic Church. Satan’s task is impossible and will never be accomplished. The Church today is what she has always been. She is One, Holy, …
“I am the priest whom he intends to prepare him for death.” Featured image: Louis XVI avec son confesseur Edgeworth, un instant avant sa mort. Wiki Commons One the most heartbreaking sections of Louis XVI’s will and testament is this: I pray God to forgive me all my sins. I have sought to know them …
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“Ye play with your palms and crowns beneath the very altar.” There are many moments of beauty and pathos in the Church’s year. But, in my opinion, few are so equally filled with both bitterness and glory as the feast of the Holy Innocents. It is very noticeable that Christ’s coming to the world is …
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“Was not our heart burning within us, whilst he spoke in the way and opened to us the scriptures?” Picture: Chora Church Anastasis, Wikimedia Commons Brief Preface “Search the scriptures,” said the Lord. “For you think in them to have life everlasting: And the same are they that give testimony of me, and you will …
“She kept all these words in her heart.” Both of the these aids take a short text (usually from Holy Scripture) for each Our Father and Hail Mary. This one mostly features texts from the New Testament, but with some divergence into the Church’s traditional texts and images. Each Our Father generally sets the scene …