This past Sunday we celebrated The Feast of Christ the King. As a feast it is very recent in church time. In 1925 Pope Pius XI regarding a world torn by WWI and increasingly filled with tyranny and godless states, proclaimed a high feast to declare the Kingship of Jesus Christ over all the world … and to pray for the peoples of the world to recognize that Kingship. (more…)

In our Gospel from St. Matthew we see our Lord taking the opportunity, when a religious lawyer tries to trip him up on a legal point, to lay out the foundational heart laws of the New Covenant. They are so important and foundational that we rehearse them at the beginning of every Mass. (more…)

Our Sunday Collect prays that God’s Grace will “prevent” and follow us. Our contemporary understanding of the word ”Prevent” is almost the opposite of the intended meaning. “Prevent” in its older and fuller sense does not mean “hinder” but “a going” or “a coming before”. (more…)