Nothing More Beautiful: The Church We Believe In Is Apostolic

Friday, May 13, 2011

Matthew Harrison

The Son of God came into this world, and good carpenter that he became under Joseph’s training, he gathered together the most rickety and knotty pieces of wood that he could find, and he built a ship that is still afloat after 2,000 years. That’s from the Scottish Catholic writer Bruce Marshall. Papal household preacher […]

God has drunk the bitter cup of the passion, says Papal household preacher in Good Friday homily

Friday, April 22, 2011

Matthew Harrison

Ecce lignum crucis, in quo salus mundi pependit. Venite, adoremus. Behold the wood of the cross, on which hung the Saviour of the world. Come, let us worship. Father Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap., quoted that familiar refrain as he concluded his homily at the Good Friday liturgy. The Papal household preacher delivered the homily, as […]