The North American Martyrs

by | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized

By Fr Shane Sullivan Singleness of purpose. So might someone paraphrase the early Jesuit spirit. Everything was put at the disposal of the Jesuit’s singular purpose as laid out in the Spiritual Exercises’ First Principle and Foundation: “to praise, reverence, and...

The First Saturdays 

by | Nov 23, 2021 | Uncategorized

By Fr Marius O’Reilly Our Lady promises to assist at the hour of their death those who help her in this devotion.  The practice of the First Saturday devotion was requested by Our Lady of Fatima in 1917.  She said to Lucia, the oldest of the three children: “I...

Mary – A very special Mother

by | Nov 22, 2021 | Uncategorized

By Fr John Keane There are twenty one in my friend Joe’s family, he has twenty brothers and sisters.  It is very difficult to keep tabs on them to know where they all are at any time.  When he comes home to his dear Mam and asks her where is Eileen today she...

The Need for Repentance

by | Nov 20, 2021 | Uncategorized

By Fr Brian McKevitt OP The German Protestant pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who died in Auschwitz in 1945, wrote a lot about what he called “cheap grace”. He was fiercely opposed to it.  “Cheap grace,” he wrote, “is the deadly enemy of...

Mary’s Assumption And Human Dignity

by | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized

By Fr Billy Swan Of all the religions of the world, none insists on the dignity of the human person more than Christianity.  With our Jewish brothers and sisters, we hold that we bear the imago Dei, the image of our creator.  If that claim wasn’t...