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Thursday, December 28, 2017

4th Day of Christmas: Holy Innocents and Babies Saved by Christmas Carols

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  Today, the 4th Day of Christmas, is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, which commemorates the slaughter of all male children in Bethlehem ...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

4th Sunday of Advent: A Still, Small Voice & The Lord of Creation

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     Today, Sunday of the Fourth Week of Advent, we anticipate the Nativity of Our Lord in a few short days.  The (seemingly) unexpecte...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Prima Luce - Gaudete (Gaudete Sunday 2016)

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Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete (“Rejoice in the Lord always, I say again, rejoice”, Philipians 4:4 ) Please...
Saturday, October 15, 2016

St. Antiochus of Lyons & the Will of God

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Today the Church commemorates a truly great saint, St. Theresa of Avila.  A Doctor of the Church, she was at the same time one of the ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

Keep The "Hallowed" In Halloween

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     Autumn has officially begun, and here in Northern New England you can feel and see it: cool days, cold nights, and bright flashes of ...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Corpus Christi: To Whom Shall We Go?

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"The Savior" by Juan de Juanes     It’s so hard for us to fully accept that the Infinite God of the Universe could fully inh...
Thursday, May 12, 2016

We Won't Find God In A Test Tube

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(An earlier version of the Throwback below titled "To Love God Is To Know Him" was first published 31 March 2015 on the blog  Ni...
Thursday, May 5, 2016

Our Eternal Destiny: Armed Robbery, or A Warm Place By The Fire?

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Today is Ascension Thursday; click here for my Ascension Thursday post on the blog Nisi Dominus . The throwback below, which first appeared...
Monday, May 2, 2016

Charpentier's Te Deum - Praise the Lord!

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     Last week I posted a clip of Haydn's Te Deum [ here ] on the Blog Nisi Dominus .  Many other composers before and since have writ...
Sunday, May 1, 2016

St. Joseph the Worker - The Laborer Is More Than His Work

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      They say that necessity is the mother of invention but, as today's feast of St. Joseph the Worker shows us, sometimes measures tak...