The Blessed Sacrament Restoring Scouting?

Scouts in uniform carry torches and wooden poles holding a canopy, while a priest in gold robes walks beneath with the Blessed Sacrament during a nighttime procession.

There is much talk about the state of scouting in North America. And rightly so. Youth are the future. Their proper formation in the fullness of truth is a big deal. So it shouldn’t have come as a surprise but it did when I discovered that scouting ‘is’ being restored through the Blessed Sacrament. It […]

Living a Liturgical Calendar

A dimly lit underground stone chamber with arched ceilings, rough stone walls, and several built-in stone benches. Light shines through a doorway at the far end, illuminating the passage ahead.

It is not easy to unplug from our busy schedules, or our pattern of modern life so consuming as it is of our human resources and so promising as it is of rewards such as leisure, comfort, and love. I found Alana Levandoski’s journey from mainstream musician to monastic motherhood illuminating. Part of her journey […]

The Source and Summit

A close-up black and white photo of a hand carefully slicing an oval-shaped vegetable with a thin knife, highlighting the precision and focus of the action.

Have you ever dug a little deeper and found treasure? Today I decided to see where the often quoted Catechism passage on the Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life” (1324 CCC) was rooted. Not so much theologically, although that’s always a bonus, but rather the paper trail through councils, popes, and saints. […]

Liturgy, The Nuclear Core of Our Spiritual Life

A church procession features altar servers in white and red robes carrying a cross and religious banners down the aisle, with congregants seated on either side in a grand, ornate church with golden decor.

Liturgy is the nuclear core of our spiritual life. Rediscover, this lenten season, how God himself wishes to be worshiped. The Eucharist is a “mystery of faith” par excellence: “the sum and summary of our faith.” (13) The Church’s faith is essentially a eucharistic faith, and it is especially nourished at the table of the […]

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