Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
This week, this Holy Week, I feel a calling to be silent, to pray, and to ponder. There is much inspiration for each of these activities in our newsletter this week.
For now, I will yield the floor to the always pertinent G. K. Chesterton, who wrote this in Orthodoxy about the Passion:
But in that terrific tale of the Passion there is a distinct emotional suggestion that the author of all things (in some unthinkable way) went not only through agony, but through doubt. It is written, 'Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'
No; but the Lord thy God may tempt Himself; and it seems as if this was what happened in Gethsemane. In a garden Satan tempted man: and in a garden God tempted God. He passed in some superhuman manner through our human horror of pessimism. When the world shook and the sun was wiped out of heaven, it was not at the crucifixion, but at the cry from the cross: the cry which confessed that God was forsaken of God.
And now let the revolutionists choose a creed from all the creeds and a god from all the gods of the world, carefully weighing all the gods of inevitable recurrence and of unalterable power. They will not find another god who has himself been in revolt. Nay, (the matter grows too difficult for human speech,) but let the atheists themselves choose a god. They will find only one divinity who ever uttered their isolation; only one religion in which God seemed for an instant to be an atheist.
A blessed Holy Week to you all. - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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"The purest suffering bears and carries in its train the purest understanding." - St. John of the Cross
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New Resources
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Handed Over for Love of Us - Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap. - The Gaze of Mercy, A Commentary on Divine and Human Mercy
Greater love has no man than this, to lay down his life for his friends, Jesus said at the Last Supper.
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Tenebrae: A Sacred Journey - James Monti - Magnificat
Tenebrae, named after the Latin word for darkness, is a unique celebration of the early morning prayers of the Divine Office for the three days of the Easter Triduum.
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Barabbas: A Holy Week Examen - Fr. Paul D. Scalia - The Catholic Thing
In their respective narratives of our Lord's Passion, all four Gospels mention the crowd's election of Barabbas over Jesus.
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To Be or Not To Be, a Craftsman - John A. Cuddeback - LifeCraft
"And aren't the respective crafts by nature set over them to seek and provide what is to their advantage?" - Socrates, Plato's Republic
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Strong Families, Strong Selves - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. - First Things
To borrow a thought from Catherine of Siena, nothing great is ever achieved without suffering.
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The Spiritual Works of Mercy - Robert Stackpole - The Divine Mercy
Works of mercy can be directed not only toward the needs of the body, but the needs of the soul as well.
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Editorials of Interest
Remembering the real St. Patrick - CWR
The United States is still, even in the 21st century, a missionary country. Yet, by some mystical irony, the one and only saint that is universally "honored" in the land of the neo-pagans is St. Patrick the Missionary.
Why Deadnaming Matters - The American Conservative
When we allow the other side to the set the terms of discussion, and police ourselves to conform to them, the battle is already lost.
Race debate: Critical race theory - Washington Examiner
This week, Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis took the extraordinary step of preemptively banning the implementation of a radical new school curriculum called "critical race theory."
Death and Lockdowns - City Journal
There's no proof that lockdowns save lives but plenty of evidence that they end them.
St. John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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