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Panem Angelorum manducavit homo, Man has eaten of the Bread of Angels, Alleluia.

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

Truly today’s feast is a magnificent feast, because we honor, not only a Sacrament of the Church, but the Blessed Sacrament itself, containing something even more considerable than the grace of God—which is quite extraordinary already—,God Himself, that is to say the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and true man. It is no wonder this most Holy Host is likened to the Bread of Angels and reminds us of the Manna that God rained down on the People of God, during their forty years of wanderings in the desert under the direction of Moses.

Why is it, though, that we partake so often […]

Ascendit Deus in jubilatione…. God is ascended with jubilee, and the Lord with the sound of the trumpet. Alleluia.

Your Excellency,
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My Very Dear Sons,

We contemplate today a reality that might seem quite “out of this world,” because it truly is. The Lord, having accomplished the mission set before Him by the Father, returns to the place from which He came, if we can speak in such terms in reference to a Divine Person. He leaves in order to blaze the trail for us. He does not leave us orphans or desert us. He promised this.

One of the characteristics of our time is the tendency to want to keep everything here below. Even Catholics, including prominent theologians, have expressed acceptance for this focus on the “here […]

At that time: Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James and Salome…entering into the sepulcher saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed with a white robe…who saith to them: Be not afraid; you seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified: he is risen, he is not here…

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

We live in tumultuous times. Despite a recent change in the mood of the nation (mostly for the better), the culture that destroys rather than builds is still with us. However, on Easter morning the most remarkable tumult is that, so to speak, of the Roman soldiers guarding the tomb. Something has upset their world.

Truly, ever since a certain Easter morning, when the unthinkable, the unspeakable, the unimaginable victory of life over death […]

Before the festival day of the pasch, Jesus knowing that his hour was come, that he should pass out of this world to the Father: having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end (Jn 13:1)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
My very dear sons,

This verse, taken from the Gospel according to Saint John, says it all. The entire mystery of Maundy Thursday is contained as if in a spiritual seed in these few words: the washing of the feet, the institution of the Most Holy Eucharist, Christ’s painful awareness of Judas’ betrayal, and the beginning of the Passion. It is all there. “He loved them until the end,” that is to say, to the utmost, until the last moment, until His human physical and spiritual […]