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We Come to Adore
Homily for the Epiphany
Published on Dom Pius Mary Noonan • 
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
St. Joseph: Patron of the house at Nazareth and the Church today
St. Matthew’s Gospel records how St. Joseph “did as the angel of the Lord had commanded him” – a phrase not just applicable to his decision to take the…
 • Michael Haynes
St. Joseph: Patron of the Church, guardian of God's ‘choicest treasures’
God chose Joseph as lord and chief of His household and possessions, the guardian of His choicest treasures, wrote Pope Pius IX.
 • Michael Haynes
Pius XII: Our Lady of Lourdes calls world to heed the truths of Faith
'The Virgin invites us to the blessed grotto in her Divine Son's name for the conversion of our hearts and in the hope of forgiveness. Will we heed…
 • Michael Haynes
Leo XIII: Holy Family is model for every Christian family
Every Christian ‘might easily, if he would but give heed to it, have before him a motive and a pattern for the good life,’ wrote Pope Leo XIII.
 • Michael Haynes
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