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For a few days beginning with the fourth Sunday of Easter, the Church wrapped our liturgical prayer around the comforting image of Christ as the Good Shepherd. We heard from the parable in John chapter 10, while the imagery from Psalm 23 echoed the theme in the Mass readings and liturgy of the hours. Even the antiphons called us to consider the voice of the Shepher...

Pentecost is one of the most important feasts of the liturgical year. It celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit, the Church being made manifest, and the culmination of the Easter season. And yet, despite the great importance of the day, the fifth-century pope, St. Leo the Great, who is widely considered to be the first systematic commentator on the liturgical year, seems t...

The humble man, even though he be great in the eyes of the world, will esteem himself less than others, for he will always suspect that their internal greatness may far overreach his insignificant external greatness. He will therefore not flaunt his accidental superiority before his fellow man, for to do so is to...

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There is a holy fire burning at the heart of the Catholic Church.

Each year, we see our priests light a new Paschal Candle from a blessed bonfire before the Easter Vigil. The light from that candle is a connecting link to every Paschal Candle throughout history. It symbolizes the eternal fire passed from age to age to every new generation of Christians, and lit by ...