Barley loaves and fishes. He would heal and they would follow Him for days at a time. In fact they had not eaten now for three days and Jesus who changed water into wine now turns to Philip and asks where they might buy bread for the people to eat. Impossible was the answer of […]
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The De Profundis
The De Profundis is the famous Psalm 129 of anguish and sorrow for sins, set to music by many great composers. It is a penitential psalm that is used by the Roman Catholic Church, sung as part of Vespers (evening prayer), and in Masses for the dead. The De Profundis is sung as a prayer […]
Reflections On Palm Sunday
Exultation before Desolation Caiaphas stated the obvious: “It is only right that one man should die in order that the whole nation might live.” The perfidious Jew never changes and always seeks the temporal while neglecting the eternal. They will plot and conspire to bring this world to its knees rather than lift a hand […]
Fouth Sunday of Lent – Look Up, Look Beyond, and Take Up
Where can we find bread enough to feed these thousands? Jesus tested Philip and He is testing us now. Philip answered in human terms that not even 200 days wages would be enough to give these people a bite each. In other words, it is humanly impossible to satisfy this situation. Now Andrew comes to […]
The Stabat Mater Dolorosa and Stations of the Cross
The Stabat Mater Dolorosa started as a Latin poem in the 13th century about the Seven Dolors (Sorrows) of the Virgin Mary’s suffering at the Cross. It was turned into one of the most powerful Catholic Latin Hymns and was added to the missal by Pope Benedict XIII in 1727 for the Feast of the […]
