MSA Writings
Our Death and Resurrection in Christ By Fr. Menard
Jesus did not suffer in our place so that we might not have to suffer, nor did he die in our place to dispense us from dying. Inspired by love and faith, he suffered and died so that our sufferings and death might become like his: an entrusting of ourselves […]
Mary and the Mystical Body of Christ By Father Menard
Our age has witnessed a profound reaction against the excesses of Marian devotion. Our contemporaries, especially the women, are irritated by any bias in favor of the exaggerated, the extraordinary, the privileged. Books and sermons on the Blessed Virgin have long tended to inflated terminology and exaggerated praise (“Mary is […]
Feast of the Assumption – Prayer by Father Menard
BLESSED ARE YOU AMONG WOMEN (Luke 1, 42) A woman near to us, like us Mary! A married woman who lived and shared the love of a man in the bosom of a home Mary! A believer who knew, as we know, how hard it is to believe but who […]
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – Reflection by Fr. Menard
“… one of the Pharisees, a lawyer, in an attempt to trip up Jesus, asked him, ‘Teacher, what commandment of the Law is the greatest?’ Jesus said to him: ‘You shall love the Lord your God with your whole heart, with your whole soul and with all your mind. This […]
The Revolution of Love – Fr. Menard
The Revolution of Love by Father Eusebe Henri Menard, OFM Founder of the Holy Apostles