by Editor | Jun 25, 2024 | Penance
by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. The practice of penance is simply living out the virtue. Where the virtue is the divinely endowed power, the practice is our exercising this power. Of course, we still need grace to practice penance, but nobody is going to do it for us. We...
by Editor | Mar 31, 2020 | Penance, Sacraments, Scripture, Vatican II
The sacrament of Anointing of the Sick was already implied in Christ’s first mission to the twelve apostles. “So they set off to preach repentance; and they cast out many devils, and anointed many sick people with oil and cured them” (Mark 6:13). Some time during His...
by Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Holiness, Mass, Penance, Prayer, Purgatory
A homily by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. ========== Today is the feast of All Souls. It comes on the day after All Saints. Between these two feast days, we remember all the members of the Mystical Body of Christ: the Church Triumphant in heaven, the Church Militant on...
by Editor | Feb 20, 2018 | Lent, Penance, Sin
Penance and Reparation: A Lenten Meditation by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. Penance and reparation are the consequence of sin. Or again, penance and reparation are the price we have to pay for our own and other people’s sin. Penance and reparation, finally, are what...
by Editor | Jun 22, 2016 | Canonization, Charity, Grace, Jesuits, Mercy, Penance, Prayer, Religious, Saints, Spirituality, Suffering, Virtue
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga – Jesuit Saint by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. We [the Jesuits] have our own great mystic, St. Aloysius. St. Aloysius Gonzaga was born on March the 9th, 1568 in Lombardy, in Italy, and he died around midnight between the 20th and 21st of June...
