To Die For Love: St. Valentine and “He Shall Feed His Flock”

To Die for Love Are you prepared to “die for love”?  It’s a romantic cliché, of course, but today is the traditional feast of a martyr who did die for love, literally.  I discuss the story of 3rd Century Saint and Martyr St. Valentine in greater detail in “St. Valentine, Patron of Agape.”      One thing is clear from … Continue reading To Die For Love: St. Valentine and “He Shall Feed His Flock”

St. Maximilian Kolbe: Witness to the Gospel of Love

What Do You Do? Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. (John 15.13) Picture yourself in the death camp at Auschwitz. You’re standing in formation with all your fellow prisoners.  The Nazis who run the camp offer a harsh disincentive to escape: for every inmate who breaks … Continue reading St. Maximilian Kolbe: Witness to the Gospel of Love

Legions of Angels, the Adulteress, and Christ’s Sacrifice

"Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?" (Matthew 46: 53-54)  Legions of Angels       Many Years ago I taught in a (more or less) Catholic high school. … Continue reading Legions of Angels, the Adulteress, and Christ’s Sacrifice

A Martyr for Marriage (Bl. Margaret Pole)

At least for those who aren't heavily invested in the so-called "sexual revolution", it is clear that the societal endorsement of sexual license directly undermines the institution of marriage, and the breakdown of marriage in turn has a profound negative impact on children most immediately, but from there on everything and everyone else.