The Greek word used is anamnesis – used to translate the Hebrew zakar – and this has a much deeper meaning than ‘memory’ or ‘remembrance.’ It is a bringing forth, a making present of the events…

St. Patrick’s Day, for so many of us, is something of a homecoming: it reminds us of where we have come from.  It is said that everybody becomes a little bit Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. Catholics…

The Cuzco School of Painting was a Roman Catholic artistic tradition in the 16th-18th centuries. Cuzco (also spelled Cusco) is a city in the Peruvian Andes that was once the capital of the Inca…

Today is Laetare Sunday, a word which means joy – and the notion anticipates the joy of the Heavenly Jerusalem, our mother. Often we think of this Sunday as a kind of break, or refreshment,…

My brothers and sisters in Christ, eight years ago, I had the privilege of climbing Mount Sinai with my very feet. At the top of Mount Sinai, one has the most splendid view of the surrounding…

I am sure you will have heard someone confidently assert something along the lines of “we’re going back to the catacombs” recently. We nod sagely, and sigh, “well, yes. Perhaps we are.” We are…

We are offering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to dedicate a pew in memory of your loved ones. To take your part in this exciting project, we are inviting a donation of $1500 per pew, which is…

No doubt many of you will have had a chance to ‘test drive’ the prototype pew in Pryor-Hubbard Hall. The next phase in our project to restore and beautify the Oratory Church will have a real…

God permits the chastening of temptation in order to perfect the opposite virtue – because that opposite virtue is what you were made for – perhaps in an exemplary…