Scott Richert writes: Yesterday, I talked about “hitting the wall” every year in the second to last week of Lent, and that experience reminds me of St. John’s description of the workings of the noonday ...
So here we are on the Wednesday of Passion Week 2020, and like clockwork, I've hit the wall. We’re 11 days away from Easter (barely 10 days, really, counting to the beginning of the Easter ...
The deer, I learned from St. John Climacus in “The Ladder of Divine Ascent,” was seen by Christians up through his time (the seventh century) as a symbol of virtue. Yesterday, I mentioned that one ...
In the latest installment of his blog “From the Chapel,” OSV publisher Scott Richert writes: “In my three years in Huntington, I’ve become familiar with many of the family names on the tombstones, because their ...
In today’s reading from the Gospel of John, we hear the story of Christ raising Lazarus from the dead. Martha, who does not know that Christ is about to raise her brother from the dead, ...
Publisher Scott Richert writes in his "From the Chapel' post of the importance of bells during this time of social distancing. At the Easter Vigil, after weeks of Lenten Masses without the Gloria, the priest ...
Scott Richert writes about Pope Francis’ extraordinary ‘urbi et orbi’ blessing, given Friday, ‘to the city and the world.’ Scott writes, I have visited St. Peter's Square at night, when it has been nearly empty. ...
In the latest installment of his “From the Chapel” series, OSV publisher Scott P. Richert writes that now is a perfect time to strengthen your relationship with your guardian angel, who, in this time of ...
As the Church celebrated Mary’s fiat on the solemnity of the Annunciation, we, too can appreciate the uncertainty that she felt. As we celebrated this great feast in the midst of a Lent that is ...
As the offices and production floor at OSV go silent as ordered by the governor of Indiana, publisher Scott P. Richert writes that “we were never meant to move at the pace of modern thoughts, ...
