St. Joseph Oratory at Mount Royal (Image courtesy of Wikicommons Images, Dpalma01, CC-BY-SA 4.0)by Theresa Cavicchio
Each year, two million visitors travel to Montreal to visit the Oratory of Saint Joseph at Mount Royal. The massive basilica and shrine occupy a place of prominence – the highest point, in fact – above the bustling Canadian metropolis below. It is the largest church and shrine dedicated to Saint Joseph in the world.
The parents of a six-year-old girl attending Santa Fe Public Schools has been ordered by a school counselor to send their daughter to reeducation “counseling” after she complained about a gender-confused boy who was exposing himself in class.
Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)YG asks: “I would like to know if Khalil Gibran is from the New Age movement. Should Catholics read 'The Prophet' and other books from this author?”
March 19
“But trust does not mean believing that God will spare us from suffering… To trust God means that we must know that whatever comes to us comes from His hand… Christ says: ‘Take no thought of tomorrow.’ He also says: ‘take up your cross daily.’ There is no need, in accepting sorrow, to look ahead, to imagine tomorrow, to ask for more or less, but just as we receive our joy day by day, so can we receive our sorrow day by day, and it will be measured day by day, by the love of God and our own littleness…”
-Caryll Houselander
March 18
“There should be, even in the busiest day, a few moments when we can close our eyes and let God possess us. He is always present, always giving us life, always round us and in us, like the air we breathe; there should be moments at least when we become more conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of His presence; when we become conscious of it as the only reality, the only thing that will last forever…”
-Caryll Houselander
We recently received a call during EWTN’s Wacky Wednesday radio show about the ALO clothing line and whether or not it’s okay for Catholics to wear this apparel due to its focus on yoga.
March 17
“Trivial suffering is not trivial in its effects; it has tremendous power for good and tremendous power for evil; it can be destructive, and warp and sour our personality. It is almost always trivial suffering which, when it is not deliberately sanctified, results in the most lethal disease of the human character, self-pity.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 16
“What is past is past; it cannot be undone, it cannot be changed by self-torture. When it is sinful it can be and should be confessed once, and only once, and then forgotten; when it is just a mistaken, confused or foolish thing, it should simply be left alone.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 15
“We certainly should pray all the time, praying with our hands, our bodies, our will, our acts; but in order to delight God and to build up the peace of our souls, besides the prayer in which we offer ourselves to God should be the prayer in which we let God give Himself to us. We should learn to receive the love of God in silence and joy–that is what is meant by relaxing.”
-Caryll Houselander
March 14
“The Liturgy expresses every passion, every emotion, every experience of the human heart. It is the song of the whole world; but it is also much more: it is the love-song of Christ in man, the voice of the Mystical Body of Christ lifted up to God. All our inarticulate longings and adoration, all our stammered, incoherent love, set in the tremendous metre of the Liturgy and lifted on the voice of Christ to our Heavenly Father.”
-Caryll Houselander
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