Mar 31, 2021
"... as His atoning passion was undergone in the body, so it was undergone in the soul also."
Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion full text: http://www.newmanreader.org/works/discourses/discourse16.html
Theme music: 2 Part Invention, composed by Mark Christopher Brandt, performed by Thomas Mirus. ©️2019...
Mar 25, 2021
“How, and when, did Mary take part—and the initial part—in the world's restoration? It was when the Angel Gabriel came to her to announce to her the great dignity which was to be her portion.”
This is a selection from a larger work by Newman, published posthumously as Meditations and Devotions. In the first part...
Mar 19, 2021
“Joseph merited the greatest honors because he was never touched by honor. The Church has nothing more illustrious, because it has nothing more hidden.”
Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet was a seventeenth-century French theologian and bishop. During his life, he was highly regarded for that for which today he is still...
Mar 12, 2021
“Possibly such a woman could not have been slain unless she herself had willed it, because she was feared by the impure spirit.”
This is the first-hand account of the events leading up to and including the martyrdom of Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, documented by Perpetua herself while in prison. Alongside her...