In previous blogposts I presented two documents very relevant to understand the Three Days of Darkness (3DD) one by Bl. Ana Maria Taigi (1769-1837) an Italian mystic who was blessed with extraordinary prophetic revelations about that mysterious event. An additional document presented as a letter of St. Pio of Pietrelcina was also published in the same post. Light and darkness Let us consider again the quote from Holy Scripture in which Our Lord defines the mission of the Church and of every … [Read more...]
Jordan Peterson And A Life Well Spent
Recently, I was moved by a video in which Jordan Peterson acknowledges believing in Christ. Many have encountered Christ throughout history and every instance is unique. Those who accept the call move on to a life of everlasting growth. Living in Christ requires to experience Christ's life in our own. What a strange thing is to accept the Cross instead of the life that most human beings live. Once someone told me: "To those Christ prefers, He gives the choicest splinters of His Cross" --I … [Read more...]
The Nicodemus Interview
Sometime ago we considered the Greek meaning of the name Nicholas, that is "victory of the people." The word nikodemos is similar. It means the same but a different word is used for "people" (demos) that is the same word that is the root of the English word demographics, for example. Nicodemus was leader of the Jews, a religious leader who defended Jesus before the Sanhedrin and provided some of the expensive things that were used to embalm the body of Jesus. He was most likely an acquaintance … [Read more...]
A King’s Dream
Giuseppe Verdi, the celebrated Italian composer wrote the opera Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar) that opened to great and continued success in the spring of 1842. Verdi's life was changed by that wonderful piece of art. His opus became a symbol of Italian national risorgimento and his very name became an acronym for a political slogan: "Viva Verdi" was the prudent way Italian royalists expressed his sympathies for "Vittorio Emmanuelle Re d'Italia" V.E.R.D.I. for those in the know who did not want to be … [Read more...]
Count The Stars Of Heaven
The ancient city of Ur has been in the news these days. Most Christians have no idea of the importance of Ur of the Chaldeans where the history of Abraham, the son of Terach, begins some 2,000 years before the birth of Christ. Abraham is the 10th descendant of Noah through the line of Shem. According to some traditions, the father of Abraham was an idol maker. Terach named his son Abram (many, multitude, nation) but later on, God changed his name to Abraham (father of nations) by adding the … [Read more...]
