Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Pearce, Substack - A healthy liturgy, Ratzinger wrote, was necessary for a healthy society: “It is only … when man’s relationship with God is right that all of his other relationships – his relationships with his fellowmen, his dealings with the rest of creation – can be in good order.”10 We might also say that this is true of man’s relationship with himself, as well as his relationship with others. Without a life properly ordered and oriented towards God in worship, man becomes disordered and disoriented in himself, flailing and fumbling his way in the darkness and unfathomable depths of the unknowable ego. If man will not find himself in God, he will lose himself in his self. There is no third course. ...

Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap., The Catholic Thing - After his resurrection, Jesus appeared to various people on a number of occasions.  He appears to Mary Magdalene, Peter, and the Apostles.  Paul enumerates the appearances of which he is aware: He first appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.  Then he appeared to more than five hundred brethren at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have fallen asleep.  Then he appeared to James, then to the apostles. Last of all, as one untimely born, he appeared also to me. (1 Corinthians 15:5-8)

By Derek Rotty, Catholic Exchange - During the Great Jubilee Year 2000, now twenty-five years ago (April 30, 2000, specifically) Pope St. John Paul II instituted the great feast of Divine Mercy Sunday. By his declaration, the feast is to be celebrated throughout the Church on the Second Sunday of Easter each year. On that same day, he canonized Maria Faustina Kowalska, a Polish consecrated nun who received a private revelation from the Lord to become His Secretary of Mercy. ....

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - There is a quotation from St. Augustine in one of the Lenten prayers in the Breviary: “You too left Egypt when, at baptism, you renounced the world that is at enmity with God.” I don’t know exactly where Augustine wrote that, but it captures the spirit of Lent perfectly—the essential turning away from that attachment to sin which interferes with our acceptance of Christ. Yet the key to even this spiritual moment is a preliminary recognition that God is not only more powerful than sin but far better.