Reflection on Life It is possible to describe an average person’s day thus: he wakes up in the morning to talk radio playing on his alarm clock, showers and prepares for [...]
Kids so easily get wrapped up in their world that they forget their surroundings and in their carelessness hurt themselves. When our kids get hurt, as a method of teaching [...]
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not [...]
Starting on Monday February 27 for the Chaldean rite, and on Ash Wednesday for the Latin rite, more than 1 billion Christians around the world enter the season of Lent, a [...]
Church & State A great deal of harm has been done by oversimplifying the relationship between political authority and the truth of the Christian faith. A glaring example [...]
For more reflections on the Basilica Hymns of each season, purchase Perpetual Jubilee: Meditations on the Chaldean Liturgical Year on Amazon.com. Investment In his [...]
One week after the Solemn Feast of Mary’s Assumption into heaven, the church celebrates today the Mother of God as Queen of Heaven. In the fourth century St. Ephrem [...]
For more reflections on the Basilica Hymns of each season, purchase Perpetual Jubilee: Meditations on the Chaldean Liturgical Year on Amazon.com. A History Temptation is an [...]
For more reflections on the Basilica Hymns of each season, purchase Perpetual Jubilee: Meditations on the Chaldean Liturgical Year on Amazon.com. Babbling “The [...]
In this Year of Mercy, Pope Francis encourages us to show God’s mercy through our witness. The Holy Father called this Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy to direct our [...]