In what can only be described as a “beautiful celebration,” a Mass on Sunday, August 14 at 2 p.m. will be held to honor 200 years of Saint James.
Month: August 2022
Due Care & Safety Of Tabernacles
The Church asserts that there has always been due diligence exercised as to her responsibility in giving precautions for the care and security of the reservation of the Holy Eucharist in tabernacles.
Douglaston Knights of Columbus Group Wins ‘Star Council’ Award
The Star Council Award is the highest honor given to a parish council of the Knights of Columbus. Council #5911 from St. Anastasia Parish in Douglaston received the award in 2006 and again this year.
Invoking Mary’s Intercession
We honor Mary throughout this month of August. For starters, we celebrate two important feast days that are linked together by an octave.
Personal Relationships Make Us Better Humans
As I have reported earlier in this series of columns based on Josef Pieper’s book “Leisure The Basis of Culture” (New York: Pantheon Books, translated by Alexander Dru, 1952, pp. 127), though I am re-reading Pieper’s book for the third time, in some ways, it seems as though I am reading it for the first time because I am discovering insights in the book that I have no recollection of discovering in my previous readings.
On the Accelerating Passage of Time
In one of his Blackford Oakes novels, William F. Buckley, Jr. had a character crack a Wagnerian joke along these lines: What is Siegfried? Siegfried is the opera that begins at 7 p.m. and when you wake up three hours later, you’re shocked to find out that it’s only 7:30.
What Do You Enjoy the Most About Being Catholic?
Very recently someone asked me, “What do you enjoy the most about being Catholic?” I have never been asked a question like that before.
Sister Finds Pragmatic Approach to Life Works Best
For Sister Caroline Tweedy R.S.M., it wasn’t an “Ah-ha moment” that led her to join the Sisters of Mercy. Rather, it just seemed like the practical thing to do.
New Brooklyn Haven Set To Open For The Young at Art
A new facility designed to give children a chance to deepen their faith through artistic expression is poised to open in September in a neighborhood that local Catholic clergy members say really needs it.
Father Carl Kabat, 88, Spent 17 Years in Prison For Anti-Nuclear Protests
Oblate Father Carl Kabat, who routinely described himself as a “fool for Christ” for his many faith witnesses challenging U.S. nuclear weapons policy, died Aug. 4 at his religious order’s Madonna Residence in San Antonio. He was 88.