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I love how, after the declaration of beatification was read, the image of Fulton Sheen was revealed at the Beatification Mass and St. Mary’s Cathedral in Peoria at the same time. And it might not be obvious on the Livestream, but the “Miracle Baby” (now a young man) who was…

Part One: Just some thoughts along the way. I’m watching via Livestream, but have friends and family, including some seminarians and priests that I know, at the beatification. My parents have mentioned a number of times that Fulton Sheen had an enormous impact on their faith, but I’d like to…

Our pastor once mentioned in a homily that when he was in seminary, they were taught to use their own words (or ad lib) parts of the Mass. He stopped doing this after a conversation with a liturgist friend of his who convinced him of the rich, long history of…

It struck me as interesting when I realized recently that we have two English words that can be literally translated as “to suffer with”. From the Greek: sympathy From the Latin: compassion

It seems an appropriate post for Lent to point out that there are now 40 different Stations of the Cross (represented by the 12th station) on our Stations of the Cross Page. The variety is interesting of course, but also the similarity. Clearly a number of the three dimensional stations…

Minneapolis, Minnesota Exterior: Old Testament Figures in Stained Glass: