Fr. Jeffrey Kirby: Missed Opportunities

In the Roman Canon of the Catholic Mass, we speak of “the catholic and apostolic faith.” It is a faith grounded in the firm belief that the eternal Son of God became man and dwelt among us, and by His Passion, Death, and Resurrection ransomed us from Hell and opened for us the hope of eternal life in Him. And so, there is nothing more awesome or powerful than the universal and apostolically grounded faith that lives, holds, and passes on the saving mystery of Jesus Christ.

As the Church has been entrusted with these mysteries, she has a vast and inexhaustible supernatural treasury. It is a treasury that is guided by the Holy Spirit and contains the holy sacraments, especially the Holy Sacrifice of the New Covenant, the written Word of God, the Sacred Tradition orally passed from one generation to the next, the teachings of the early Fathers, the writings of the saints, and the testimony of the martyrs. …