Rosa Mystica
The honor paid to sacred images is a'”respectful veneration,’ not the adoration due to God alone.
Truth Scoop
Food: Working Out Virtue
Half way through my tenure as an officer, I failed a weigh in and was put on the weight management program- a program designed to hold military personnel accountable to fitness standards.
Plenty of Questions about Plenary Indulgences: A Priest’s Answers
Today’s Guest Contributor is Father Andrew Hart, priest and friend of Bellator Society. He answers some questions for us about the special new Plenary Indulgence granted by the Holy See this week in response to the Covid-19 health crisis. ____________________________ Question: What is an indulgence? Father: An indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment for … Read more
Food: Salt
Salt, perhaps the most common kitchen seasoning, may also have the most interesting backstory.
Hymns of Penitence
Sometimes when you just don’t have the words for a situation, comforting prayers or the poetry of a hymn, can come to the rescue.
New Year, New Victories
Ah, hello 2020! A brand-new year and a fresh start to whatever we decide. A lot of us still write down a list of resolutions we hope to accomplish during the year. Some of us carefully divide them into categories.
Dry Bones
Nothing is too difficult for God or at such a loss that God can not breathe new life into it. He is a God of hope and restoration. He is a victorious God who makes all things new, and He can redeem anything.
Victory in the Battle of Wills
As a child, I always took the words, “thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven,” to mean we should go about doing what God wants us to do here on earth as I imagined the angels going about carrying out His will in heaven.
The Bishop’s Cheese
I do not presume I have a fraction of the gift of hospitality so beautifully exhibited by my grandmother and my mother. But, I have been given a heart for it that at least doesn’t stop beating altogether when my 4 year old licks the Bishop’s cheese.