Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
Our reflection this week begins with a definition: "Prayer is asking God for what is fitting." What is fitting?
Silverstream Priory is a newly established Benedictine monastery in Ireland. It is a place of radiant monastic life that is bursting with vocations. See "Homily for the Simple Profession of Dom Isaias Maria Kwasniewski, O.S.B."
Fr. Paul Mankowski passed away on September 3, 2020 and we've reprinted an obituary penned by his friend, Phil Lawler. See "Farewell, Uncle Di: Father Paul Mankowski, RIP."
If you have ever been labeled as a "single-issue voter," read Anthony Esolen's "Repairing the Foundations." "'Abortion,' some Catholics say, 'is only one issue.' No, it is not. It is but the bloodiest form of a many-sided attack upon the very nature of the family. Attend to the words: not an attack upon the material welfare of families, which would be bad enough, and which neither major party in the United States has been innocent of, but upon their being."
Then we have "The old lies of the Young Turks," an important piece on the truth of the Armenian Genocide.
We end with Fr. George Rutler, who quotes Saint Cyril: "Let us not be ashamed of the Cross of Christ. ... Make this sign as you eat and drink, when you sit down, when you go to bed, when you get up again, while you are talking, while you are walking: in brief, at your every undertaking." See "The awful Crucifix."
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez |