
Patrick Briscoe
Editor at OSV News
Editor at Our Sunday Visitor
🐶 Friar & Priest, @Dominicanfriars 📝 Editor, @OSV🎙️Host, @Godsplaining📍St. Vincent Ferrer, NYC
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2 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe
There are two key points I’d like to reflect on with you today, especially in light of our ongoing meditation on the Sacred Heart this month. First, this Gospel scene brings us to the foot of the cross. As Jesus is dying, he entrusts his mother to the beloved disciple and the beloved disciple to her. In that moment, Mary becomes not only John’s mother but the mother of all disciples, the Mother of the Church. We are each represented in John.
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2 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe
The Sacred Heart is the human heart of Jesus Christ — the incarnate Word. It is a heart of real flesh, a heart that beat in his chest, that ached with compassion, that was pierced on Calvary. It is a sign of divine love expressed in a fully human way — a love we can relate to, one that we see, touch and contemplate. The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is uncreated love — the eternal bond of love between the Father and the Son.
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3 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe
These are among the very last words of Jesus recorded in the Gospel of John, and they contain a timeless warning: Beware the trap of comparison. Peter had been entrusted with the keys of the kingdom. He had just been told, “Feed my sheep.” But in this moment of deep personal mission, he looks sideways. He asks about someone else’s path. And Jesus redirects him, not with harshness, but with clarity: “You follow me.”Comparison is one of the most corrosive temptations we face as disciples.
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3 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe
Many dioceses in Peru had traditionally been overseen by religious orders, particularly the Franciscans, Dominicans and Augustinians. But with the decline in vocations, the nuncio often found himself in need of new solutions. One such case would ultimately lead to the historic appointment of Robert Francis Prevost, the American Augustinian missionary who would one day become a cardinal and later Pope Leo XIV.
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3 weeks ago |
oursundayvisitor.com | Patrick Briscoe
The First Friday devotion began through the visions of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, to whom Jesus revealed his Sacred Heart — burning with love for humanity and wounded by our indifference. Jesus asked that the Friday following the Octave of Corpus Christi be set aside as a feast in honor of his Heart and that the faithful receive Holy Communion in reparation.
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RT @Guzik_Paulina: Peter enters St. Peter's 📸Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters https://t.co/JvJlNV0eNe

During Pope Leo’s first month, I sat down with Archbishop Green, who ordained Fr. Robert Prevost, OSA, a bishop in Peru. +Green shared some marvelous insights during our conversation: https://t.co/VsUPbSp57j

RT @SaraPerla8: The workouts paid off