Three-Fold Office

Our Lord’s threefold office has been described as that of prophet, priest, and king. But these are not mere titles we assign to Him, without any practical apparent meaning. At the beginning of our service, we confess our sins. We seek a way to approach God through the blood of Jesus Christ. In the forgiveness …

Our Lady of Westminster

Marian obedience, the jewelry of God, has adorned     the gracious necks of many women,          hearts rejoicing in God their Savior.                 Fiat mihi. Margaret Wilson, tied to a stake,     struggled and drowned,     filled with water,           yet full of grace.Marie Durant—behold this handmaiden of the Lord—      spent 38 years in a forsaken tower by the sea,      rather than …

Values Instead of Virtues

“Expressive individualism, which grew out of the Romanticism of the late eighteenth century and today has an especial affinity with our therapeutic culture, assumes that all people have a unique core of intuitions and feelings within them that is then coupled with the understanding that they have the inherent right to pursue and express these …