Corpus Christi, Protestantism, and the Real Presence
The Words of God are Not Heard with Humility and Many Weigh Them Not
Hints on the Interior Life for Active Workers
Courtships That Produced Saints: Bernard and Ellen Casey
The Golden Hail Mary
From Mother’s Heart to Your Home…
Beloved, this is my first column to you within the wonderful and God-blessed family of TAN. I am honored to be invited to write this monthly column and am especially grateful that we can, in this way, support one another as the enemy continues his battle for the destruction of the family. I say that…
Look Upon Your Child as An Immortal Creature
Look at your little child. See the little smile, the little nose; see the little arms and legs; hear the sweet little voice that calls your name in joy and sorrow. If you could, you would imitate God and number the hairs upon your little one’s head (Mt 10:30), treasuring each one, “for where your…
The Clash of Angels (Part II)
As tradition holds, O Lord, the radical idea of Your incarnation became known to the angels. Your greatest of angels of the highest choir, Lucifer the seraphim, could not bear the thought. He, the greatest of all creation, would be called to bow down to flesh and bone, artery and vein, synapse and sinew. He…
On Discerning the Treasury of Sacred Music
“Cantare amantis est (singing belongs to one who loves).” —St. Augustine It is a matter of fact that in the vast majority of Catholic parishes the liturgical music is abysmal. This is a decades-old dilemma that is still menacing the Church across the globe, the aftermath of the 1960s modernist purge that announced itself as…
A Utilitarian or Saintly Marriage?
Years ago, my mother caught my father off guard with a most profound question. She asked what he would miss about her after she died. That night, my father stayed up for hours writing a litany of things as tears poured down his cheeks. Sadly, many of us take our loved ones for granted. Many…
The Last of the Martyrs of the Coliseum
“The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians.” —Tertullian There is an old story told in Rome of a fifth-century monk named Telemachus, whose name has been written in the annals of Roman history. On a memorable day in the year 404, it is recorded he entered the Coliseum in Rome, the largest ancient…
Parents as Spiritual Guides
“The family is the foundation unit of the human race. God Himself solemnized and witnessed the first marriage and ordained that through marriage the race should increase and multiply. The continuance of marriage and the family throughout time was therefore the plan of God. Christ, moreover, when on earth, concerned Himself with the nature of…
Before Time (Part I)
Your humility had no beginning, O Lord, for You had no beginning. You were eternally begotten from Your Father. Your very essence is that of Son to the Father. Your humility, therefore, is wrapped up in Your very being, for You have always subjected Yourself as Son to the Father in humble obedience, in loving…
