Come, Holy Spirit

Every Sunday during the Profession of Faith, we stand and profess that “we believe in one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” These are what our tradition calls the Four Marks of the Church, the four defining characteristics of the Church… Read More

Feast of the Ascension

On Christmas Day, we celebrated the Incarnation, the human, bodily birth of Our Blessed Lord into the world. During Holy Week, we commemorated His Passion, the suffering that His human body endured because of the weight of our sins.
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Growing in Virtue

When you enter into the Basilica of St Peter in Vatican City, one of the first works of art that you notice off to the right is that of Michelangelo’s famous Pietà, his depiction of the Blessed Mother holding our… Read More

Detach in Order to Attach

In the late 1980s a somewhat controversial movie came out called The Last Temptation of Christ. This movie was about Christ entertaining a temptation by Satan at Gethsemane to reject His vocation, to reject the cross, in effect, to reject… Read More

Conscience As Our Guide

Heavenly Father, through the apostle Paul, You taught me that whatever I do, I should do for Your glory. In this endeavor, I fail every day, but the psalmist reminds me that when I confess my faults to You, You… Read More

Iraq A Just War?

Approximately two weeks after the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, as the United States was about to begin what has come to be known as its War on Terrorism, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, Joaquin Navarro-Walls, said this to the… Read More

The Family Vocation

For those of us who have received the sacrament of Confirmation, on that day, we received the seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit. One of those seven gifts was, of course, Fear of the Lord. (I shall leave the other… Read More

Living Christmas

Well, after over three weeks of increased prayer and fasting, of mortification and self-denial, we come to this week to give glory and praise to our Lord, Jesus Christ. After confessing our sins and observing our penances, we finally come… Read More

Signs and Symbols in the Mass

Remembering the dress your wife wore on your first date or your husband’s favorite meal are small things that truly touch the heart when they are remembered.
It is in the little things — things that may seem unimportant —… Read More

The Missal and the Mass

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(Fr Augustine H.T. Tran attended seminary at the North American College in Rome, Italy and was ordained to the priesthood in 1998. He serves in the Archdiocese of Atlanta, and is currently in residence at… Read More

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