Scott Hahn

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Heather King |Robert Brennan |Scott Hahn

“When the images of earth cling too tightly to memory, when the call of happiness becomes too insistent, it happens that melancholy rises in man’s heart: this is the rock’s victory, this is the rock itself. The boundless grief is too heavy to bear. These are our nights of Gethsemane.” — Albert Camus, from “The Myth of Sisyphus”Many years ago, I had a thought that has stayed with me ever since: Maybe the whole reason I was born is so I can sit with Christ for an hour in the Garden at Gethsemane.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Robert Brennan |Heather King |Scott Hahn |Ad rem

I will wager that most people reading this have no idea who St. Fiacre was and what he has in common with the Beatles. The whimsical Beatles song, “When I’m 64,” is a projection into a beautiful future with the singer joyfully looking forward to growing old with his true love, where even the simplest pleasures, such as “doing the garden, digging the weeds,” are things devoutly to be wished for.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Cindy Wooden |Ronald Rolheiser |Scott Hahn

Pope Francis is going without supplemental oxygen for longer periods and is continuing therapy to recover his voice and to recover his physical strength, the Vatican press office said, but he also is increasing the number of private meetings he is holding with the heads of Vatican offices.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Ronald Rolheiser |Scott Hahn |Tom Hoffarth

Where might we experience Jesus today in a world that is seemingly too crowded with its own concerns to allow a space for him? The renowned spirituality writer Tomas Halik, in a recent book entitled “The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change” (University of Notre Dame Press, $35), makes this suggestion.

1 week ago | angelusnews.com | Scott Hahn |Ronald Rolheiser |Tom Hoffarth

The return of our “Alleluia” is just days away. Outside Lent, it’s sung or recited before the Gospel at Mass. But then it goes away for our 40 days of fasting. It’s just a single word, and it’s so commonly used that we hardly notice it. But it is significant because the Jews of Jesus’ time associated the word primarily with the great feast of Passover — the time each year when they renewed their ancient covenant with God.