“It is time to cancel” the annual bi-partisan charity event known as “the Al Smith Dinner and all the other…
The story of Paul’s journey into Arabia begins and ends in the Temple at Jerusalem (Acts 7:1—8:1; 22:17-21). Paul made…
One of the reasons I love the Extraordinary Form is that within the rite, there are a lot of lovely…
In ancient times the city of Damascus employed a system of subterranean canals that irrigated the plains and supplied Damascenes…
A great light enveloped Saul of Tarsus, the zealous Pharisee and persecutor of the Church. Blinded by the light, he…
There is certain work of Christian literature written c. AD 190 that tells the story of how Saint Paul baptized…
Saint Paul the Apostle was born in the ancient city of Tarsus in the Roman province of Cilicia (present-day Turkey)…
The first written catechism of the Catholic Church, known as the Didache, and dated somewhere in the first century A.D., begins…
Maybe it comes from watching too many M*A*S*H reruns where Father Mulcahy seemed to be right there whenever a soldier…
This, of course, is not an exhaustive list of Lenten ideas. But it’s a start! Many of the resources mention…