The Mass in the Book of Hebrews

Knights of Columbus Video about My Journey

 

Good Friday 2026

Priests who were tortured in Communist Prison Camps in Russia for decades were told by their torturers versions of the following “The Coward Jesus Christ only suffered for three hours on the Cross; you have been suffering here for 20 years…give up”

And some of them did give up and renounce their Catholic Faith

And so, on this Good Friday, I would like to look at this question; is there suffering that is worst than Christ’s suffering?

Some people have been sick/infirmed/paralyzed for decades, and may be asking the same question or are hearing the demonic word “Christ didn’t suffer as much as you” whispered into your soul

St. Thomas Aquinas actually takes this question up in his Great Work of Catholicism.

“It would seem that the pain of Christ's Passion was not greater than all other pains. For the sufferer's pain is increased by the sharpness and the duration of the suffering. But some of the martyrs endured sharper and more prolonged pains than Christ, as is seen in St. Lawrence, who was roasted upon a gridiron…Therefore it seems that the pain of the suffering Christ was not the greatest.


St. Thomas later responds to this objection: “This argument follows from only one of the considerations, from the bodily injury, which is the cause of sensitive pain; but the torment of the suffering Christ is much more intensified from other causes."


And what are those other causes?

1) The cause of the interior pain was, first of all, all the sins of the human race

2) He embraced the amount of pain proportionate to the magnitude of the fruit which His suffering produced


And so,

1) Christ’s suffering and death on the Cross is the most painful suffering, and my sins contributed and continue to contribute to that most horrible suffering ever

2) But also, we rejoice in the fruit which his suffering produced, which we will once again begin celebrating tomorrow evening at sundown.

 

Jesus and the Holy Spirit turn us into God

 St. Athanasius famously wrote:

For He (Jesus) was made man that we might be made God (On the Incarnation, Ch. LIV, Pt. III, circa 4th Cent. A.D.).

St. Basil, “The Treatise On the Holy Spirit” cap. 9, 22-23: pg 32, 107-110

“Through the Spirit we become citizens of Heaven, we are admitted to the company of angels, we enter into eternal happiness, and abide in God.  Through the Spirit we acquire a likeness to God; indeed, we attain what is beyond our most sublime aspirations – we become God.”

St. Thomas Aquinas, Office of Readings for Corpus Christi: “Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods.

St. Augustine, in his Confessions, says that he heard Jesus say: “I am the food of grown men: grow, and you shall eat Me. And you shall not change Me into yourself as bodily food, but into Me you shall be changed”   (7, X).

A Beautiful Video on my Journey

 

G.K. Chesterton on What Protestants THINK are the central tenets of Catholicism

"So much of the Protestant tradition still remains that a great many people suppose that the chief marks of Catholicity are those which stood out as stains in the eyes of the last school of critics.  Romanism is supposed to be made up of Popery and Purgatory and the confessional, with the queerest things thrown in, such as incense and rosaries and the images of saints.

But these were often the things most important to Protestants, not most important to Catholics"

G.K. Chesterton.  "The Well and the Shallows".

Should you Fast on the Sundays of Lent?

 No.

St. Thomas Auinas, in his commentary on Romans 14:5 notes: “There are some days on which it is unlawful to fast.  For Augustine says in his “Letter to Casulanus”: “Whoever thinks that a fast should be decreed on the Lord’s day would not be a small scandal to the Church."

Smash Your Smartphone!

Adolf Hitler was a baptized Catholic

Fernando Mendoza brought the Heisman to my spiritual director Fr. Patrick Hyde!

POWERFUL: Indiana star quarterback Fernando Mendoza on Christmas Eve brought the Heisman Trophy to the local priests at the church in an Amazon box.

“We walked out and there, in an Amazon box, there was the Heisman Trophy”

This kid is truly special 👏🙏pic.twitter.com/2LqF5Thv9n

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) December 31, 2025

Active Catholic Fernando Mendoza on Going to Mass and Confession

 

POWERFUL: Heisman Trophy winner Fernando Mendoza on why he took the trophy to the priests & celebrated his accomplishment with them.

“I'm a Catholic, I'm a Catholic man”

“I really give a lot that I have accomplished this season in my life to the Lord”

🙏pic.twitter.com/HNk2q0ie2O https://t.co/byIUZbdpY4

— MLFootball (@MLFootball) January 19, 2026