Tears’ Requite Awash on shores of errant heart, Crystalline soldiers wend their depart. The battle o’er, the mend begun, Hovering Spirit break forth thy sun. You tugged as moon on ebbing tide, To etch and burrow as to chide, But than as swells of billowed lace, You left a smile of radiant grace. To purge … Continue reading
Christ and Moses
Christ and Moses From the Catecheses by Saint John Chrysostom, bishop The Israelites witnessed marvels; you also will witness marvels, greater and more splendid than those which accompanied them on their departure from Egypt. You did not see Pharaoh drowned with his armies, but you have seen the devil with his weapons overcome by the … Continue reading
Grace and truth came through Jesus Christ
The law was given through Moses, grace and truth came through Jesus Christ From a sermon by Saint Leo the Great, pope The Lord reveals his glory in the presence of chosen witnesses. His body is like that of the rest of mankind, but he makes it shine with such splendor that his face becomes … Continue reading
COVENANT TO BE RENEWED EVERY WEEK
COVENANT TO BE RENEWED EVERY WEEK O LORD God, my Creator, all my desire is before Thee, and my groaning is not hidden from Thee; but inasmuch as the necessities of this life prevent the constant application of my mind to Thy praise, I make with Thee this covenant, earnestly desiring that it may remain … Continue reading
Man’s deeper questionings
Man’s deeper questionings From the pastoral constitution on the Church in the modern world of the Second Vatican Council The world of today reveals itself as at once powerful and weak, capable of achieving the best or the worst. There lies open before it the way to freedom or slavery, progress or regression, brotherhood or … Continue reading
