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 ...
In her latest column at OSVNews.com, Teresa Tomeo writes that “This Lent, no doubt, is being seen not only as one of the most unique Lenten seasons in Church history, but also one of the ...
The extraordinary urbi et orbi prayer service in a desolate St. Peter’s Square on March 27 was the finest hour to date of Pope Francis’ seven-year pontificate, writes the Our Sunday Visitor editorial board. In ...
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 ...
Without the comfort and routine of Holy Week and Easter Sunday Mass, many people are feeling uncertain about how to live out their faith during this time of pandemic. But as an Easter people, we ...
In his latest column for Our Sunday Visitor, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that throughout history, wars and pandemics have come, but as human beings, we have no control over much of what occurs in human ...
In a time where Catholics are unable to receive the sacraments, the term “spiritual communion” has been mentioned frequently. A reader asks: “How do I understand this, and, once churches open again, can I go ...
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 the Opening the Word for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Timothy P. O’Malley writes that in the Year of COVID-19, there will be silence in churches throughout the world, a priest or two ...
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, ...
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