Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

Per Mariam: Mater Dolorosa

Spirituality

Leo writes to priests: Imitate the love of the Sacred Heart where holiness is found
‘The world greatly needs pastors who offer more than simply words or programs; it needs the living witness of a reconciled heart that exudes the sweet…
 • Michael Haynes
Keeping Christ company on Maundy Thursday
Let us adore and love this Jesus, whose love for us was not satisfied unless he drank, to the very dregs, the Chalice he had accepted from his Father.
 • Michael Haynes
Annunciation: a commentary on St Luke's Gospel
Father Thomas Crean's insight into the Annunciation account in the Scriptures highlights the dignity of Mary as befits her status as Mother of God.
 • Fr Thomas Crean
St. Alphonsus sermon: On the delusions of sinners
"The Devil brings sinners to hell by closing their eyes to the dangers of perdition."
 • Michael Haynes
We Come to Adore
Homily for the Epiphany
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Mary's love for her Son on Christmas night
“She adores, takes him into her arms, presses him to her heart, swathes his infant limbs and lays him down in the manger.”
 • Michael Haynes
Advent begins and Christmas awaits
Advent marks the time when one can be formed in a spiritual knighthood, in the manner of the medieval squires.
 • Michael Haynes
Mary's sorrows in the month of September
We can therefore say that Mary, on account of the love she bore Him, was in heart, during the Passion of her Son, struck, scourged, crowned with thorns…
 • Michael Haynes
Transfiguration shows the Heavenly glory of Christ on Earth
'The mystery of the Transfiguration is wrought in our souls already here on earth'
 • Michael Haynes
Cardinal Burke: The Eucharist shows Christ as King
'The social nature of Christ's Kingship is manifested most fully in the Eucharistic Sacrifice' Cardinal Burke noted.
 • Michael Haynes
Bishop Schneider on Pentecost: ‘there is only one Church of God’
The bishop delivered his Pentecost homily during the annual Latin Mass pilgrimage to Chartres, for 19,000 people.
 • Michael Haynes
Maundy Thursday: What is Christ's love we are called to imitate?
St. John admonishes that we must “not love in word, nor in tongue, but in deed, and in truth.”
 • Michael Haynes
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