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White Double AS WE HAVE ALREADY SAID, Joy is the leading feature of the Paschal Season—a supernatural Joy, which springs from our delight at seeing the glorious triumph of our Emmanuel, and from the happiness we feel at our own being delivered from the bonds of death. This interior Joy was the characteristic of the Saint whom we honor today. His heart was ever full of a jubilant enthusiasm for what regards God; so that we could truly apply to him those words of Scripture: A secure mind is like a continual feast. One of his latest disciples, the...

May 26, 2006 Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, priest Psalm: Friday 22 Reading 1Acts 18:9-18 One night while Paul was in Corinth, the Lord said to him in a vision,“Do not be afraid.Go on speaking, and do not be silent, for I am with you.No one will attack and harm you,for I have many people in this city.”He settled there for a year and a halfand taught the word of God among them. But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia,the Jews rose up together against Pauland brought him to the tribunal, saying,“This man is inducing people to worship God contrary...

May 26, 2005Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, priest Psalm: Thursday 24 Reading ISir 42:15-25 Now will I recall God's works;what I have seen, I will describe.At God's word were his works brought into being;they do his will as he has ordained for them.As the rising sun is clear to all,so the glory of the Lord fills all his works;Yet even God's holy ones must failin recounting the wonders of the Lord,Though God has given these, his hosts, the strengthto stand firm before his glory.He plumbs the depths and penetrates the heart;their innermost being he understands.The Most High possesses all knowledge,and...

Father Gerald Goesche is a spiritual volcano. But one senses in him, not the sparks and fire of someone angry, bitter, judgmental, but the warmth and fervor of someone on fire with the love of God and his fellow man. To attend one of Goesche’s Masses, and then to spend time with him to discuss the faith and the situation of the Church and world today, is to spend time with a man who seems literally ablaze with the love of Jesus Christ. His face shines with joy as he celebrates Mass and preaches his homily, his arms swing through...

May 26, 2004 Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, priest Psalm: Wednesday 24 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IActs 20:28-38 At Miletus, Paul spoke to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus: "Keep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the Church of God that he acquired with his own Blood. I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the...

May 26, 2003Memorial of Saint Philip Neri, priest Psalm: Monday Week 24 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Gospel Reading IActs 16:11-15 We set sail from Troas, making a straight run for Samothrace,and on the next day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi,a leading city in that district of Macedonia and a Roman colony.We spent some time in that city.On the sabbath we went outside the city gate along the riverwhere we thought there would be a place of prayer.We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there.One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth,from...