Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Some bleak exuberance about Exsuperantius. Fathers Parsch and Troadec remark on the point of the condescension of God.
HEY! au****.w****@erickson.com My thank you note to you was kicked back as undeliverable. New email? Please remember me when shopping online and use my affiliate links. US HERE – UK HERE WHY? This helps to pay for health insurance (massively hiked for this new … Read More →It’s the Sunday in the Octave of Christmas and, in the Novus Ordo, Feast of the Holy Family. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at your Sunday Mass of obligation? Share the good stuff. Quite … Read More →Holy Church considers many Old Testament figures to be saints. Today when you open your trusty copy of the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum you will find, just below the St. Thomas Becket, this interesting entry: 2. Commemoratio sancti David, regis et … Read More →
Octave of Christmas, let’s look back to the 1st Mass of Christmas! Right click for larger. And then there’s this jackass. One notes with interest that what he attacks is traditional rather than post-Conciliar. I wonder if he was perhaps … Read More →Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Card. Schuster remarks on the office of bishop. Then Pius Parsch, with the help of St. John Chrysostom, remarks on the office of priest. Card. Bacci comments on what the … Read More →Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Fr. Troadec with a lyrical prayer to the Holy Innocents. Jewish convert and scholar Alfred Edersheim situates the slaughter of the children in the context of salvation history. Card. Bacci … Read More →
Today, being the Feast of the Evangelist John, we have a special blessing for wine and other libations. I wrote about that HERE. We have this blessing because of an assassination attempt. There was an attempt on the life … Read More →Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. Card. Bacci tells us about St. John’s constancy with Christ and his emphasis on charity. Fulton Sheen recounts the difference between the two miraculous catches of fishes and how John … Read More →This is a question which comes up each year. It came up again today. Must we do penance on Friday within the Octave of Christmas? The short answer is YES. This year. According to Canon Law, Catholics are bound to … Read More →Today a 10 minutes podcast for your Christmas Octave reflections. A note from Fulton Sheen, some history of the celebration of the Feast in the ancient Roman Church, what happened to Stephen and why, what it means for us.In addition to Boxing Day, and the day good King Wenceslaus went out, it is the feast of St Stephen. I hope all your snow is neat and crisp and even. St. Stephen’s feast has been celebrated this day since the … Read More →
In your goodness, please offer a prayer for the repose of the soul of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD, who died on Christmas Day in 2020. Foster was a Carmelite if Holy Hill, WI, Latinist for many Popes in Rome, and … Read More →
In your goodness, please offer a prayer for the repose of the soul of Fr. Reginald Foster, OCD, who died on Christmas Day in 2020. Foster was a Carmelite if Holy Hill, WI, Latinist for many Popes in Rome, and … Read More →The Burning Babe by St Robert Southwell, S.J., martyr (1561–1595) As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to … Read More →
Many thanks to anyone who has sent an item from my wishlist. I try to send a note, when I am able. Amazon has made it harder to do that. Sometimes, they don’t include gift slips. Once, the slips had … Read More →A 10 minute podcast for your Christmas reflection. Fr. Pius Parsh on the “exaltation” of the “King”. Bl. Ildefonso Schuster on the least we should do. Fr. Troadec: “Reestablish the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ!”A 5 minute daily podcast to help you in your Advent preparation. Today we have a reflection from Fr. Troadec about the place where the Lord was born. Cardinal Bacci on apparent success and true success.
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critique of secular views continues to ethics. Here too, Clark contends,
secular philosophy fails. He briefly dispatches Kantianism before addressing
utilitarianism. As he has written elsewhere, a major problem is that the
calculations required by utilitarianism are impossible. The ‘still greater
difficulty’ in calculating the greatest good of the greatest number is
establishing the The first and basic point in a
Christian philosophy of education, or a Christian philosophy of anything, is
Biblical authority. Just as Platonism is
defined by what Plato wrote, and not by the decadent skeptical Academy of later
years, so the ultimate definition of Christianit not the decadent confusion of
the liberal churches, not the pronouncements of the Pope, not the inconsistentThe Bible and the Bible alone is the word of God. 2 Timothy 3:16I'm not an expert in making and uploading videos. However, this is my first video uploaded to the Reasonable Christian channel in YouTube: Reasonable Christian Apologetics channel.