Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | The Christian Review

The Benefits of Gaming

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 29, 2020 | Family, Featured, Media, Technology |

Without sports, theaters and restaurants, individuals and families need some fun to balance the drudgery of work and inconvenience. I recommend computerized gaming, but not just any sort. I prefer adventure games.

Cinematic Revelations: A Poem

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 5, 2020 | Culture, Featured, History, Media, Movies, Poetry |

Directors differ in their form of art,
From spoof to realistic history,
While casting actors for each part,
For drama, romance, comedy,
To craft a masterpiece or silly camp,
About a villain, saint or holy tramp.

Unexpected: A Purgatorio in Quatrains

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 3, 2019 | Catholic Church, Family, Featured, Literature, Liturgy, Poetry, Spirituality |

Perfection yet to be attained,
With layers left to be unfurled,
Her soul is cleansed while still detained,
Within the timeless Netherworld.

This state between eternity
And time, however short or long,
Endures between ubiquity
And place to keep a ghostly throng.

Sing a New Song to the Lord

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 7, 2019 | America, Books, Catholic Church, Culture, Featured, History, Liturgy, Music |

I beg the Holy Spirit to inflame the young generation with the zeal to sing a new song to the Lord.

From the Heights of the Last Century to the Present

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jan 7, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Humor, Manners, Media |

From Carol Burnett to Kathy Griffin, From Cecil B. DeMille to Michael Moore, From Walter Cronkite to Jim Acosta, From Johnny Carson to Jimmy Kimmel, From Dick Clark to Howard Stern…

Green Puritans

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Featured, Science |

The planet exists for humanity, not humanity for the planet.

God is Straight

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture, Education, Family, Marriage, Science, Scripture, Theology |

Homosexuality is not a state of being because it is not inherent to created nature. It does not participate in the absolute Being of He-Who-Is. Rather, it is a state of privation or of the absence of something that should exist. Homosexuality is a shadow or cavity in the soul.

The Origin of Personhood

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Science |

Supporters of abortion make one assertion for which they will be easily prosecuted and condemned: that human personhood begins at birth.

Can Culture Be Whatever?

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Manners |

Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.

Please Consider the Morality of Your Memes

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Aug 17, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Ethics, Featured, Media, Politics |

The reason that memes came into existence is that we have become so bombarded with words from advertisements to propaganda that we need to filter the cacophony to garner the gold dust from the sand.