Category Archives: Magnificat

“The family is the privileged setting where every person learns to give and receive love…. The family is an intermediate institution between individuals and society, and nothing can completely take its place….The family is a necessary good for peoples, an … Continue reading →

Sacred Scripture teaches the human family what the experience of the ages confirms: that while human progress is a great advantage to man, it brings with it a strong temptation. For when the order of values is jumbled and bad … Continue reading →

Freedom in Marriage and in Christianity. Father Richard Veras Freedom is essential to the Sacrament of Marriage; even for Catholics who marry non-Christians in the Church, freedom is necessary for the marriage to be valid. This is fitting because Jesus … Continue reading →

Faith certainly proposes for our belief mysteries most difficult, far above our reason and understanding, and sublimely exalted even above the natural capacity of the angels themselves. But since the doctrine of faith admonishes us that these mysteries are to … Continue reading →

We should note that our Lord touched the ears and tongue of the disabled man who was to be healed, he took him and led him aside from the crowd. The first hope of salvation for anyone is to desert … Continue reading →

Consider, dearly beloved, how God’s love has found a way through our obstinacy. We have no excuse now. We despise God, and he waits. He sees himself rejected, and he calls us back. He accepts the insult of our rejection, … Continue reading →

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that also among Christians profound consciousness of the Lord’s return has become a rarity. Between preoccupation with the last things and present reality stands the wall known as the scientific viewpoint. But doesn’t … Continue reading →