The Meaning of Christus Victor
Christus Victor! Christ is the Victor! Such was the cry always on the lips of ancient Christians, and such is the new title of the newsletter of the Angelic Warfare Confraternity (the newsletter was...
View ArticlePower of the Daily Prayers
Power of the Daily Prayers The Saints and the Fathers of the Church tell us over and over again that chastity is first and foremost a gift of God’s grace. When St. Thomas Aquinas was tempted against...
View ArticleSurrender to the Spirit, Grow in Chastity
Surrender to the Spirit, Grow in Chastity Every day of our lives we make the sign of the cross and declare our faith in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These three divine Persons...
View ArticleHow to Deal with Impure thoughts
How to Deal with Impure Thoughts All sexual sins are either sins in thought, word, or deed. Sinful words and deeds are rooted in impure thoughts. If by God’s grace we grow in the purity of our...
View ArticleThe Presence of God
The Presence of God How can I come to know and to live in the presence of God? The Irish Dominican Father Anselm Moynihan, O.P. once authored a short but compelling book to answer the question. In his...
View ArticleWe Need Sacramentals
We Need Sacramentals The Church is filled with a multitude of sacramentals. The Church has officially established numerous ceremonies for the blessing of water, salt, oil, candles, bread, houses, cars,...
View ArticleSecond Luminous Mystery: The Wedding at Cana
Second Luminous Mystery: The Wedding at Cana Our Lady’s words at the wedding at Cana “Do whatever He tells you” (John 2:5) are beautifully intertwined with her example of such feminine virtues as...
View ArticleHomily for the Feast of the Archangels
Homily for the Feast of the Archangels The angels are not at the heart of the Christian mystery. Christ is at the heart. The angels are peripheral. They are “framers”….literally. In the medieval images...
View ArticleJesus Touches You Through Faith
Jesus Touches You Through Faith Are you aware that any moment you have the chance to be touched by Jesus? You and I have been given the incredible gift of faith. Faith is the supernatural ability to...
View Article“He Will Come Again In Glory…”
“He Will Come Again In Glory…” He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead. So it is that Christians profess when we say the Apostle’s creed, and so it is that the Scriptures say. We...
View ArticleLENTEN CONFERENCE AUDIO: CHRIST THE KING
Dominicana is happy to offer this audio recording of “A Kingdom Unlike All the Other Nations: The Son of David’s Reign of Mercy.” It was given by Br. Isaac Morales, O.P. as the final installment of the...
View ArticleWe Advance Towards Him: The Martyrs of Tibhirine, Twenty Years On
Twenty years ago this month, seven Trappist monks from the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine in Algeria were kidnapped by extremist Islamic insurgents. Ultimately, their severed heads were found two months...
View ArticleLions and Wolves and Lambs, Oh My!
Dominicana > Home / Culture, Discipleship, Evangelization, History, New Evangelization, Politics, Preaching, Saints, Virtue, Virtue & Moral Life / Lions and Wolves and Lambs, Oh My! “I am...
View ArticleThe Pope Emeritus and Beatitude in the Church
In a recent interview, Pope Benedict discusses contemporary viewpoints on God’s justice and mercy. Of special note is what he describes as “a deep double crisis” in the Church today. Modern missionary...
View ArticleIn Fear and Trembling
I found a song for you, a moving rendition of a piece that’s usually performed very differently. Minimize those other tabs, close your eyes, and just listen for a few minutes. Sounds different (and...
View ArticlePraying and Living the Easter Octave
Pope Benedict XVI describes the Resurrection of Jesus as an “evolutionary leap” in which a new dimension of human existence emerges. This new dimension “affects all of us and opens up for us a new...
View ArticleThe Resurrection was a pretty good day
At the end of a particularly good day, my college friends would refer to it as a “slice of the Glory Cake.” The exact origins of the phrase have been lost to the mists of history, but during our...
View ArticleA Familiar Voice
My grandfather passed away suddenly when I was only five years old. Knowing my parents, I must have seen a lot of him as an infant, but we had been living in Germany for three years when the tragic...
View ArticleLiturgical Time Travel
What a long, strange trip it’s been, hasn’t it? Yesterday we kept the feast of the Annunciation of the Lord, usually celebrated on the day nine months before Christmas. The Word through whom all things...
View ArticleMoments Made Eternity
Time is uncomfortable. That’s probably why we’re always trying to “kill” it. In a letter to Sheldon Vanauken, C.S. Lewis wrote, If you really are a product of a materialistic universe, how is it you...
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