Our life is often adrift; we lack the clear sense of direction that ought to permeate our whole routine and direct all our thoughts, words and deeds toward this overarching goal, like iron filings to a magnet. After all, the final cause in philosophy, the purpose and destination of aRead More →

St. Louis-Marie de Montfort gives to those who consecrate themselves completely and utterly to the Mother of God in the end times a special name, “Apostles of the end times”, and he describes the manner of their response, their qualities and the disposition of their hearts. In doing so heRead More →

Our Lady of the Snows is an old name for St Mary Major, a Church that is a Major Papal Basilica in Rome and the biggest Marian Shrine of ancient Christianity, being originally constructed by Pope Liberius around the year 360. It was embellished with beautiful mosaics of Mary andRead More →

Man refused to love God when he was tempted by the devil and allowed himself to be deceived by him. Since man fell into sin out of weakness, God decreed in His eternal Providence not to allow the work of His hands to suffer eternal ruin. He who had “established”Read More →

Everyone who does something, does it for some purpose. If God, so to speak, comes out of his interior Trinitarian life in order to create, then He always has in mind the goal for which He does all this, namely, “the praise of His glory” (Ephesians 1:6). He, Christ, isRead More →

The Second Person of the Most Blessed Trinity, the eternal Word, is the exemplary cause (causa exemplaris) of all created being and as such the eternal, uncreated Wisdom: “All things were made by Him, and without Him was made nothing that was made” (John 1:3). “[He] is the image ofRead More →

On July 16, we celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This day commemorates the apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to St. Simon Stock to save the Carmelite Order from extinction and to grant graces to the universal Church. On the night of July 15, 1251, theRead More →