Education. Arts. Charity.
(And the greatest of these is charity).
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The Glory of the Resurrection
by Brett Manero It is several days past Easter Sunday, but we are still in the octave of Easter, and indeed, the Easter season will last for many more weeks. This is the season of Resurrection, of life, of hope for eternal life. Jesus Christ has done it: He has conquered death in His glorious…
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That Day Which is Called “Good”
by Brett Manero Almost every year, the question of “why do we call Good Friday good?” comes up. It’s a fair question. After all, it’s the commemoration of the most horrific act ever committed by people to another person: the unjust, unlawful, and thoroughly corrupt execution of the greatest man who ever lived, Jesus Christ,…
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I Have Called You Friends
by Brett Manero Friendship is an amazing thing. True, bona fide friendship can also feel like an incredibly rare thing. Perhaps this is why St. Thomas Aquinas – arguably the greatest theologian in the history of the Church – famously says of friendship: “There is nothing more on this Earth more to be prized than…
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That Week Which is Holy
by Brett Manero Sunday, April 13 begins Holy Week in the year 2025 AD. All of human history is centered around the life of Jesus Christ, and here we are, nearly exactly two-thousand years since His Passion, still commemorating that all-important event. Why is Holy Week called Holy Week? After all, the original Sabbath day…
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Spring and Signs of Life
by Brett Manero Spring is the best time of year – for me, anyway. Warm air is arriving, new life is budding, and signs of resurrection abound. What a perfect time of year to celebrate the most significant event to happen in human history: the Resurrection of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In our…
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Your Cross is Your Superpower
by Brett Manero There are many reasons for why Christianity is brilliant. There is the truth that in the Christian faith (built up on the Jewish faith), God comes to meet man, and not the other way around. In so many pagan religions, it is humanity that seeks to find the divine, but in the…
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The Loveliness of Lent
by Brett Manero It’s been a while since I wrote a new article: I was traveling in Europe, finishing the first class of my doctoral program, and generally just catching up on life. But here I am, and we are already something like halfway (or more than that) through the holy season of Lent. Lent…
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80 Years Since the Liberation of Auschwitz
by Brett Manero January 27, 2025 marks eighty years since the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Today, this date is known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. In January of 1945, Soviet forces, penetrating deeply into Nazi-occupied Poland, encountered the death camp and were astonished at the horrors which they found. Auschwitz was of course the…
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Pray for the People of Southern California
by Brett Manero The Los Angeles area is currently experiencing a shocking onslaught of as many as six active massive wildfires which began on Tuesday, January 7, due to an unusually high speed of the Santa Anna winds, possibly reaching as high as 100 MPH (source: The New York Post and CNN). A friend of…
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“Mary:” A Review
by Brett Manero I intended to write this review some two weeks ago, but the busyness of the Christmas holiday got to me. I watched the recent film, Mary, while en route from Denver to New York just before Christmas, and I’m finally getting around to a second viewing. The following is, I hope, a…
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