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By Elizabeth Zelasko, Denver Catholic - Understanding Christ's Love through Iconography and the Cross... "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not."  Isaiah 53:3... If you have ever loved someone who was suffering, you will know, deep in your soul, what it is to make this face... This is not only the face of a man who has known suffering but the face of a man who is profoundly sorrowful for the suffering of his beloved. His expression reaches from the Cross, back in time to Adam and Eve, and forward through time to you, in your suffering today. ...

By Carl E. Olson, Catholic World Report - “The greatest of these,” wrote the Apostle Paul, “is love” (1 Cor. 13:13). Many centuries later, in a culture quite foreign to the Apostle to the Gentiles, the singer John Lennon earnestly insisted, “All we need is love.”... Different men, different intents, different contexts. Even different types of “love.” You hardly need to subscribe to People magazine or to frequent the cinema to know that love is the singularly insistent subject of movies, songs, novels, television dramas, sitcoms, and talk shows—the nearly monolithic entity known as “pop culture.” We are obsessed with love. Or “love.” With or without quotation marks, it’s obvious that this thing called love occupies the minds, hearts, emotions, lives, and wallets of homo sapiens.

Catholic Herald Today - Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s legacy is most notable for his charisma and his ability to use modern media to evangelise. However, his personal piety and devotion to the Eucharist inspired generations of Catholics, particularly priests, to commit themselves to Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. He famously encouraged the practice of spending a Holy Hour in front of the Eucharist, crediting it as the “secret of whatever success I have had in my life.”