Msgr. Beaulieu – Liturgical Preparation for Lent
The Weeks Before Lent
As the calendar turns from January to February, the prospect of Ash Wednesday comes more into focus since this year, what is technically known as the Feria Quarta…
A World with Legal Suicide
In a country like Canada, which has surpassed the world in putting its citizens to death through euthanasia, how do people begin to view suicide? Promoters of assisted suicide go…
Msgr. Beaulieu – The Presentation of the Lord
The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord (or Candlemas) occurs on February 2 or the fortieth day after Christmas. After giving birth, a woman was regarded as unclean for…
Msgr. Beaulieu – The Beatitudes
Twice in the liturgical year – the 4th Sunday in Year A and again on All Saints Day—the Gospel selected for those observances begins and will eventually include the setting…
Paving the Way to Euthanasia – Part 1
As noted in a previous post, promoters of doctor-assisted suicide have changed the language in the 2023 bill to remove anything that may have provided some kind of conscience protection.…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Ordinary Time
In the encyclical Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII captured the essence of liturgical theology and greatly stressed those liturgical elements which would eventually bear fruit in the Second Vatican Council,…
Msgr. Beaulieu – Jesus as Priest, Prophet, and King
Derived from the Latin word munus, the term munera implies a duty to give or an obligation or a donation to the public service. Three munera or duties of Christ…
MA SJC Decision – OK If Terminally Ill
On Saturday, December 19, 2022, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court released its decision in Kligler v. Healy – the assisted suicide case. As I posted previously, only Christopher P. Schandevel…
Nature and dignity 