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Pencil Preaching for Monday, March 14, 2022
St. Matilda
Matilda, also sometimes known as Maude, was born around 895. Her father was Count Dietrich of Westphalia and her mother’s name was Reinhild. Her grandmother, who was the Abbess of the Eufurt convent, raised Matilda. In 909, Matilda married Henry (The Fowler) after his first marriage to a woman named Hathburg had been declared invalid. […]
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“It is a foolish mistake to expect to lead a recollected life that is not also a life of prayer. The best method of learning to pray always is to pray whenever it is possible, and as well as is possible.” -Fr. Raoul Plus, SJ, How to Pray Always
Monday of the Second Week in Lent
The spiritual life is a journey of constant struggles and trials. We experience moments of great hardship as we overcome our challenges and difficulties, such as judging others or losing our patience with loved ones. If we fall, we get back up and keep on going in order to live the virtue we seek. We […]
First Week of Lent: Words of Life on the Margin of the Missal by Dom Marmion
To fully understand the mystery of the temptation of Jesus (1), we must remember that Christ is like us in all things except sin: Debuit per omnia fratribus similari, absque peccato. Imagine to what a state of weakness a man would be reduced if, for forty days, he allowed himself no food. Jesus did not […]
Reform of the Order of Malta: The Pope Takes His Time Before Deciding
Pope Francis devoted no less than two hours of his time to moving forward on the question of the reform of an institution born in Jerusalem nine hundred years ago. The only aside during the conference: the telephone exchange between the sovereign pontiff and the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. The result of this meeting filtered […]
Vatican: Cardinal Turkson Resigns
“Pending the appointment of a new leadership,” the sovereign pontiff has appointed interim prefect Canadian Cardinal Michael Czerny, who until then was in charge of the Migrants and Refugees Section within the same dicastery, from January 1, 2022. 73-year-old Cardinal Turkson’s resignation, the Holy See’s statement explains, comes “at the expiration of the first five […]
LENTCAzT 2022 – 13: Monday 2nd Week of Lent – The Secret
COLLECT: Sts. Cosmas and Damian STATION: San Clemente Today: Fr. Patrick Troadec speaks about how we are not alone, no matter what. He has a killer quote from St. Elizabeth of the Trinity. The Prayer Over The People. Fr. John … Read More →
Nicaragua Government Expels Vatican Diplomat
Cancilleria del Ecuador via Flickr Daniel Ortega celebrates his re-inauguration as president of Nicaragua, Jan. 10, 2012. The expulsion of the nuncio marks a further deterioration of the diplomatic relations between the Holy See and Ortega’s government.
On Eve of Cardinal Becciu Hearing, Pope Francis Tells Vatican Judges: ‘Listen to Everyone’
Vatican Media Pope Francis speaks at the opening of the 93rd judicial year of the Vatican City State courts on March 12, 2022 Cardinal Becciu, who was forced to resign from the rights of members of the College of Cardinals in September 2020, has been charged with embezzlement, abuse of office, and subornation of perjury.