The priest is not a priest for himself; he does not give himself absolution; he does not administer the sacraments to himself; he is not for himself, he is for you. The priesthood is the love of the Heart of Jesus Christ. When you see the priest, think of our Lord Jesus Christ."
At Night to Shine, I’ve seen what just one moment of love can do.
It’s not about the red carpet or the crowns.
It’s about someone finally realizing, maybe for the first time, they’ve always had worth.
Why? Because they’re made in the image of God.
Will we come together and not just share and express this worth once a year during Night to Shine, but every day share the love and value of people with disabilities and the vulnerable?
Since being assigned to parish ministry, I’ve been reading more on preaching. Here’s a good note from Ratzinger:
“The simple faith of simple people deserves the respect, the reverence of the preacher, who has no right simply to play off his intellectual superiority against their still simple faith, which in some circumstances grasps the heart of the matter more surely as a simple overall intuition than does a reflection that is divided up into many separate steps and particular findings” (Dogma and Preaching, p. 33)
Pope Leo will carry Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament through the streets of Madrid in Spain during the Corpus Christi procession on Sunday
Image: Vatican Media
At how many Pontifical universities does the Rector Magnificus pluck a Banjo?
@HBThomists sighted at the @_Angelicum this afternoon, for a wonderful afternoon of bluegrass music and fellowship! Big plus, they started and ended with two of my favourite songs!
Hoy celebramos el día del beato Jacinto María Cormier OP
👉🏼 Maestro de la @OrdenDomincana entre 1904 y 1916.
👉🏼 Fundó el @_Angelicum.
👉🏼 Agregó 32 congregaciones de hermanas de vida apostólica a la Orden.
⏩ https://t.co/Z11coAwsxB
"Tonight, I will offer a special blessing for America in the heart of our nation’s capital. At the foot of the Washington Monument, I will lift the Eucharist..."
https://t.co/X0fhFeB2VS
Last year, the St Paul Seminary as part of the National Eucharistic Revival released this breathtaking video of a Eucharistic procession with some 7000 participants.
A perfect video to watch during this octave of Corpus Christi.
Jonathan Roumie narrates.
People with Down Syndrome have a right to life.
Many Christless societies have massacred almost all of them. Only the church speaks for them as precious humans deserving protection.
In the Eucharist, we find a visible manifestation of the reality that we are the Church of Christ, His members, His body. We are brothers and sisters in Him. And in Christ, though many and diverse, we are one: "In Illo uno unum". #CorpusChristi#MagnificaHumanitas
That's "Reverend" Raphael Arteaga, O.P. '19 to you. 😄⛪
Congratulations to Father Raphael — formerly Daniel Arteaga — on his ordination to the Dominican priesthood! ⚫⚪ Many friends and @PC_Alumni attended his ordination Mass in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the occasion.
A few nights ago, a few professors at the Angelicum treated the students to a private concert by the Hillbilly Thomists.
Although only three members of the eight-man troupe were with us, they sang as though all of Tennessee had somehow found its way into the heart of Rome.
Friends, to reduce “Magnifica Humanitas” to the theme of artificial intelligence would be regrettable. The irreducible nobility of the human being is, I believe, the master motif of this extraordinary text.
Read my full reflection on Pope Leo’s first encyclical here: https://t.co/JT6ulsUt3y