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LJB 12/2/11 Every Eucharistic Consecration is eternity stepping into time – just as the moment when Mary conceived Christ by the Holy Spirit. It is the same Spirit we call upon in faith that transforms our gift of bread and wine into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. It was His prayer

LJB 7/26/12 Charity, as defined by the Catholic Catechism could not have existed before the first beat of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The true and full meaning of charity cannot be adequately conveyed in words nor represented through a single act or image. It must be demonstrated through a manifestation of Divine love and

Jacob of Serug († 521) Gabriel, the great chief of the hosts, descended; he went down to her as he had been sent from God, because she alone was worthy of the great mystery that was rich in divine revelations. With prayers and in clarity and in simplicity, Mary received that spiritual revelation. She being

From a letter by Saint Leo the Great, Pope Lowliness is assured by majesty, weakness by power, mortality by eternity. To pay the debt of our sinful state, a nature that was incapable of suffering was joined to one that could suffer. Thus, in keeping with the healing that we needed, one and the same