Fourth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From Pope Benedict XVI
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke
Ugo da Carpi after Raphael, cir. 1523-27
At that time, when the multitude pressed upon Jesus to hear the word of God, He stood by the lake of Genesareth. And He saw two ships standing by the lake; but the fishermen […]
External Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus — A Message From St. Catherine of Siena
Translation of the Holy Gospel According to John
At that time: The Jews (because it was the Parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the Sabbath day (for that was a great Sabbath day) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and […]
A Poem for Our Blessed Mother
THE SCHOLAR’S SEARCH
Xavier Donald MacLeod, Our Lady of Litanies, 1861. pgs. 167-9.
“WHAT is wisdom?” asked the Scholar,
“What its nature? Where its source?
Whence derived this mighty force
Of our yearning to attain it ?”
Weary days and silent midnights
Saw his piercing eye explore
All the wealth of written lore,
Saved from the decay of ages.
And he dug the fields […]
