This is the favorite week for retreats and recollections. Our nuns at Villa San Miguel are all out of town for their annual Holy Week retreat. We do have recollections during the Advent season, but more people make their retreats…
Many processions will be held these days. Every parish, almost every chapel, will have processions of well-decorated images of the Holy Week characters. I have always been fascinated by processions. I have always been fascinated by the behavior of people…
Today’s Mass is unique. It has two Gospels. The first Gospel is about the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, the City of Peace. The second Gospel is about His passion and death. In a matter of minutes, the mood…
According to Napoleon, what separates the sublime from the ridiculous is only one step. In the case of the Gospel, we can paraphrase what Napoleon says and note that “the distance between what is sublime and what is ridiculous is…