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Dear Friends,
The late spring and early summer is such a beautiful time of year. The weather practically begs you to go outside. Some vacation time is, hopefully, in the works.
Still, as Shakespeare noted long ago, even this exquisite season has its imperfections: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; / Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, / And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; / And every fair from fair sometime declines, / By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d (Sonnet 18). But we look to One to whom we can say with far deeper meaning than the Bard ever intended: But thy eternal summer shall not fade.
In Jesus and Mary, |
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Rev. Sebastian White, O.P. Editor-in-Chief |
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SAINT WHO?Saints Who Taught about the Holy Spirit |
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This month’s saints remind us of some of the surprising ways God pours forth the Holy Spirit on his faithful. |
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…and these great features |
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| Holy Places by Anthony Esolen
The southernmost church in the world is the Chapel of Our Lady of the Snows in Antarctica, carved out of ice. |
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| She Pondered These Things in Her Heart by Helen Alvaré
Widowhood can be the occasion for some painful lessons about God’s purpose for our lives. |
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| Great Conversion Stories by John Janaro
Saint Pontian Ngondwe, a Bugandan royal attendant, went from spite to kindness between his conversion and martyrdom. |
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| Our Life in Christ by Father Richard Veras
The Sacred Heart of Jesus longs to enflame our hearts with his love that we may burn with this love ourselves. |
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| Credible Witnesses by Heather King
Mother Mary Alfred Moes founded what became the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota after the area was devastated by a tornado. |
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| The Ascension of the Lord by Jennifer Hubbard
The Lord answers our prayers at a time of his own choosing and in ways beyond our comprehension. |
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| A Father’s Blessing by Father Carter Griffin
Catholic priests foster the supernatural life of their people as fathers in the order of grace. |
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| Jubilee 2025: Pilgrims of Hope by Michael Hahn
The virtue of hope forms us to rely upon God in total confidence and to seek not God’s gifts but God himself. |
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LECTIO DIVINAA Prayerful Reading of Sacred Scripture |
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Everything that the Father has is mine; for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
The Gospel for the Sunday of the Most Holy Trinity (Sunday, June 15, 2025) John 16:12-15 |
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| Cover Commentary
Pentecost
This work depicts Our Lady standing among the apostles at Pentecost as Mother of the Church. |
| | Pentecost, Joachim von Sandrart (1606–1688), Lambach Abbey, Austria. |
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Art Commentary
The Last Supper
This still life leads the viewer into the mystery of the institution of the Eucharist. |
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The Last Supper (c. 1620), Luis Tristán (c. 1586–1624), Prado Museum, Madrid. |
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| Veni, Creator Spiritus
Come, Holy Spirit, Creator come, From your bright heavenly throne! Come, take possession of our souls, And make them all your own… |
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