According to the Second Preface of Apostles, God has granted that his “Church might be built upon apostolic foundations” - Quoniam Ecclesiam tuam in apostolicis tribuisti consistere fundamentis. Two New Testament texts in particular are referred to here. Towards the end of the Apocalypse, St. John has a vision of the Church...

Dignus est Agnus qui occisus est - Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and divinity and wisdom and strength and glory (Apoc 5:12).

So we sang in the Introit to today’s Mass. So we make our own the cry of the numberless Angels gathered around the Throne in Heaven, as seen and reported by St. John in the Apocalypse. And with this cry, this Chant, we bring our liturgical year to its close: celebrating our faith in Christ on a...

I think that many, if not most people here now were with us on Thursday for the re-Dedication of this Church. In that beautiful and lengthy ceremony, the Bishop...

The Feast of All Saints has its roots going as far back as the late 4th century. At least, some places kept such a feast then. Gradually the celebration became fixed on 1 November, and gradually it spread all over the Church... 

Three times, in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus prophesies his coming Passion, Death and Resurrection. In St. Mark’s Gospel these prophecies follow...