+ Blessed Feast of the Cross “Our Lord has lifted up for us His hands on the Cross, and stretched out were His hands for us. And why were His hands stretched out on the Cross? In order that our hands might be stretched out to do good works since...

+ “But no one is persecuting us to the point of death. How then can we prove that we love our friends? But there is something we should do during times of peace in the Church to make clear whether we are strong enough to die for the sake of...

+ A Blessed Feast of the Martyrs, Ecclesiastical New Year, & Feast of St. Verena The earth has been filled with the blood of martyrs as with seeds, and from that seed have sprung the crops of the church. The martyrs asserted Christ’s cause more effectively when dead than when...

+ “The root and source of all evils is when we overlook the concerns of our neighbors. For if we are members of one another, the welfare of our neighbor is not just his own concern but that of the whole body, and the injury of our neighbor is not...