Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.

G.K. Chesterton once remarked that he found it funny, but not ultimately strange,…

Isaiah 64:8

Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.

Jane Studdock, the heroine of C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength has a ghastly moment where she realizes…

John 17:11

And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even…

I came of age intellectually in the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate cynicism of the 1970s. I was taught by the prevailing winds of culture to believe love of country, pledges of allegiance, national anthems, and all that sort of thing were terribly…

John 15:11

These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.

Every Christmas and Easter, American media pause from their clamor (”Coming up: Shocking Live Videos of Gruesome Mayhem, Fornication,…

Colossians 1:13

He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son.

St. Dismas, otherwise known as the Good Thief, is the traditional Patron Saint of Thieves (because he “stole heaven” at the…

Malachi 4:2

But for you who fear my name the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go forth leaping like calves from the stall.

On all Sundays, the Lord’s Resurrection is celebrated anew in the Church. …

Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.

Yesterday we thanked God for the faithfulness of ancestors…

Psalm 78:5-6

He established a testimony in Jacob,
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children;
that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children.

Recently, there has been a…

Galatians 6:2

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

The “law of Christ” is quite simply the law of total self-donation to God the Father, for it is the nature of the Son to give himself totally to…