Craig St. ClairVerbum 8 was released to the world at the end of October, and in addition to packing Verbum with brand-new features, we also gave the various base package libraries a significant overhaul—from Starter all the way up to Portfolio. And I was the one...
The Ember Days are upon us! The what? you ask. The Ember Days. They are making a comeback in the Catholic Church after a long absence following the changes of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, which significantly revised a...
Happy feast of The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church! This “new” feast isn’t actually new. The basic elements of what Holy Father Francis has promoted to a Memorial has existed in the Roman Missal and Lectionary in...
The Doctors of the Church did not begin to be officially identified as such until relatively late in Church history. It was the Catholic Church that confers the title upon both western and eastern Christians. In the post today, I’d like to...
This month in February we celebrate two Doctors of the Church: St. Peter Damian and St. Gregory of Narek. St. Gregory of Narek (February 27) St. Gregory of Narek is the most recent Doctor of the Church to be recognized. Pope Francis named Gregory a...
You may have noticed back in January that we were promoting the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Basil of Caesarea, St. Gregory Nazianzus, St. Hilary of Poitiers, and St. Francis de Sales. You may have noticed further that each of these great...
Each year, the Holy Father publishes his thoughts and reflections on the upcoming Lenten season. This year is no different and the theme comes from Matthew 24:12: “Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold.” Below is an...
We began this Advent series of reflections with the question: what are you waiting for? With the busy-ness of Commercial Christmas constantly demanding our attention, it is easy to lose sight of the watchfulness and preparation the Church asks of us...
Last Friday on the Logos Blog, Faithlife’s own resident “Logos Pro” Dr. Mark Ward posted a piece in response to Pope Francis’s comments made on the “lead us not into temptation” petition in the Our Father. The...
A voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” Last week, on the First Sunday of Advent, we were exhorted: “Be watchful! Be alert!” We posed the question: What is it that you are waiting...