The Solemnity of Corpus Christi places before us a body. Not an idea. Not a memory. A body. Flesh. Blood. Bread. Wine. The evangelist John, in the sixth chapter, does not give us the institution narrative at the Last Supper. Instead, he gives us a long discourse in which Jesus insists: “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.” The crowd is shocked.
Pope Leo XIV recently gifted the Church with the deeply moving encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. At the center of this letter is a breathtaking reminder of our divine origins.
Sister Lúcia dos Santos, the last living witness of the 1917 apparitions at Fátima, died at the age of 97 on February 13, 2005. She passed away quietly in the Carmelite convent in Coimbra, Portugal. The same hidden place where she spent decades praying…
One of the most fiercely debated dogmas of our faith in the early centuries of the Church was on the nature of the Most Holy Trinity. Today’s solemnity did not enter the General Roman Calendar until the fourteenth century, partly because we are called to honor and worship the Most Holy Trinity every day and in every liturgy.
Parts of Third Isaiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi mark the final prophetic voices in the post-exilic era. Prophecy then falls silent for four centuries, until John the Baptist appears, bearing witness to the Messiah as “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” (Jn 1:29).
For centuries, Catholics seeking a deeper relationship with God have turned their gaze toward the Blessed Virgin Mary. While many devotions focus on asking Mary for her intercession from afar, the tradition of Carmelite spirituality invites us to something much closer, warmer, and more profound. It asks us not just to look at Mary, but to look at the world with her—and to let her shape our inner lives from the inside out.
The apostles returned to Jerusalem after Jesus’ ascension and gathered in the Upper Room where Jesus had celebrated the Last Supper. It was the first novena, and it was Jesus himself who requested it when he asked the apostles to remain there in prayer until the coming of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:4). This was the very same room where….
When one speaks of war in ethical and Christian perspective, he or she will most probably think of “the Just War Theory”. In the past, and up to the twentieth century, wars seemed to be inevitable and the application of the Just War Theory, an ethical demand – or excuse – to go to war and to defend wars. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the Just War Theory was “resurrected” again. President George W. Bush and other world leaders used the Just War Theory to justify the war – and not only against terrorism.
The Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord commemorates the fortieth day after the Resurrection when Jesus ascended body and soul into Heaven and took His seat at the right hand of His Father. Traditionally, the location of the Ascension is believed to be less than a mile east of the Old City of Jerusalem……
New members of Our Mother of Perpetual Help Devotees Group were formally installed on April 26, 2026 at San Augustine Church. The group is under the spiritual guidance of Sister Celsa of the Missionaries of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.
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