Jeanie Hannaman

By Joseph Hollcraft, Ruth Berghorst, Catholic Exchange - Since the Middle Ages, there has been particular emphasis placed on bringing Mary into the mission of redemptive suffering with the Chaplet of Our Lady of Sorrows... Traces of devotion to Our Lady of Sorrows were present throughout the Church’s first millennium, but it was not until seven noble men retreated to Monte Scenario near Florence, Italy, that a deeper devotion to Mary emerged. These men, dedicated to prayer and penance, held a special reverence for Our Lady.

By Fr. Paul D. Scalia, The Catholic Thing - Over the past three Sundays, we have heard our Lord’s Bread of Life Discourse. Today the scene comes to a dramatic conclusion with the crowd’s rejection of his teaching. (John 6:60-69) Their reaction touches on two timeless and therefore timely controversies: authority and the body... First, authority. “Then many of his disciples who were listening said, ‘This saying is hard; who can accept it?’” What makes Jesus’ teaching hard is not any lack of clarity. There’s no indication that the crowd didn’t understand what he was teaching. Indeed, on several occasions Jesus confirmed that they rightly understood that he was teaching that his flesh is real food and his blood real drink.

By Fr. Charles Fox Essay, Catholic World Report - The English priest and apologist, Msgr. Ronald Knox (1888-1957), whose death anniversary is August 24, preached a series of six sermons on the Cross of Christ in 1928. Knox meditates upon the contrast between the world’s perception of Christians and the reality of those whose lives are conformed to the Cross. For his preaching, Knox selected a Pauline text, 2 Corinthians 6:4: In all things let us exhibit ourselves as ministers of God…