Heroic Forgiveness and the Sacraments
Last month I was in Krakow, Poland, with my wife, who is Polish-born. We arranged and accompanied the Magnificat Choir from St. John Cantius Parish in Chicago on their sacred music pilgrimage. While there, we attended Sunday morning Mass at beautiful St. Mary’s Basilica. For his homily, the priest read the letter from the Polish Bishop’s conference decrying the attempts by the European Union to mandate the legalization of non-Catholic practices such as abortion across the region. All this, of course, to bring the country out of the “dark ages” of Christian morality! As the bishops stated in that letter, “true democracy is for everyone to have the right to life.” Do these efforts to impose a secular rule on society sound familiar? Evil is everywhere and never rests. The extent of this can never be underestimated.
The Hour of Mercy and the Immaculate Heart of Mary
by Larry Maginot – “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously” (Lk 2:48). These words of Our Lady spoken to the 12-year-old Jesus upon finding him in the Temple express the sorrowing anguish that filled the Immaculate Heart for the three days she and […]
