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5 days ago · The Pontifical Equestrian Order of Pope Gregory the Great was established on Sept. 1, 1831, by Pope Gregory XVI, seven months after he was elected pope. The order’s motto is Pro Deo et Principe (“For God and Ruler”). It’s bestowed by authority of the pope, following a detailed nomination process, in recognition of a person’s ...
2 days ago · Pope Leo I, who was the first pope to be remembered posthumously as “the great,” began his papacy in 440 and served until his death in 461. During his pontificate, he worked to clarify doctrines related to Christ’s human and divine natures.
4 days ago · And not only because he is generous, but because he is truly in love with us. He sees and loves the beauty and goodness that we are. The Lord knows that evil and sins do not define us; they are diseases, infections. And he comes to heal them with the Eucharist, which contains the antibodies to our negative memory.
3 days ago · Dear brethren in Christ, below you have a series of homilies given by Pope Francis on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (“Corpus Christi”) from 2016-2022 for your personal reading and meditation in preparation for the Solemnity of God’s Love for us in the Holy Eucharist. ANGELUS. Saint Peter’s Square.
4 days ago · This prompted an intervention from Pope Gregory VII and afterwards a type of “Eucharistic revival” occurred in France. Fr. John Hardon describes what happened next in the book The History of ...
St. Pope John Paul II: “A great mystery, a mystery of love, an ineffable mystery, before which words must give way to the silence of wonder and worship. A divine mystery that challenges and involves us, because a share in the Trinitarian life was given to us through grace, through the redemptive Incarnation of the Word and the gift of the ...
5 days ago · The pope next celebrated mass outside the cathedral, in front of an estimated crowd of 100,000, and hailed the importance of St. Boniface for German Christianity: “The holy Boniface, bishop and martyr, signifies the beginning of the gospel and the church in your country.” The pope later prayed at St. Boniface’s grave.
