by Editor | Feb 19, 2016 | Lent
Brief History of Lent (Reflections on the meaning and observance of Lent in preparation for the feast of Our Lord’s Resurrection.) by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Written for the Marian Catechist in 1989 It seems certain that a Lenten season preceding Easter goes...
by Editor | Feb 15, 2016 | Devotions, Eucharist
The Sacred Heart Is the Holy Eucharist by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus goes back to the early Church in the time of Divine Revelation. Like all other true devotion in the Catholic Church, devotion to the Sacred Heart is based on...
by Editor | Feb 3, 2016 | Mariology
Chapter XVII | PRESENTATION AND PURIFICATION by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. St. Luke is the principal evangelist of Our Lady. After narrating the birth of Christ at Bethlehem, he tells us in one sentence what happened on the eighth day after Christmas. “When eight days...
by Editor | Jan 29, 2016 | Virtue
The Meaning of Virtue in St. Thomas Aquinas by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Until modern times the relationship of morals to religion was taken for granted, and writers as far different in philosophy as Plato and Avicenna, or in theology as Aquinas and Luther, never...
by Editor | Jan 20, 2016 | Mariology, Saints
Cardinal Newman, Apologist of Our Lady by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. In their formal protest in 1950 against the definition of Our Lady’s Assumption, the Anglican bishops of England declared, “We profoundly regret that the Roman Catholic Church has chosen by this act to...
