Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | The Christian Review

It’s Opening Day! An Ode to America’s Pastime

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Apr 3, 2017 | America, Culture, Family, Sports |

No graceful movement in ballet
Can equal a six-four-three double-play.

Deep as the Netherworld and High as the Sky

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2017 | Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, Liturgy, Saints, Spirituality, Theology |

By descending from Heaven to Earth, the Son of God earned the right for us to be assumed from Earth to Heaven. By descending upon the Church, the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to earn a place left vacant by the fallen angels in the sky.

Diversity with Patriotism

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jan 25, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Culture, Ethics, Featured |

Patriotism is not merely a sentimental bond to a nation. It is a virtue in the spiritual will of the human soul. Without patriotism, our hearts would suffer an empty void. Patriotism is a kind of piety, which is a part of justice.

Beneath the Fair Moon’s Watch – A Poem for Advent

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Dec 2, 2016 | Faith, Featured, Liturgy, Poetry, Spirituality |

Beneath the fair Moon’s watch tonight,
Her mantle’s warmth enfolds my walks.
Still shivers from a chill not right,
Shrill malice from the shadow stalks.

“There’s No Need to Choose the Lesser Evil In This Election” – St. Thomas Aquinas

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Oct 24, 2016 | 2016 Election, America, Conservatism, Ethics, Featured, How To Vote Catholic, Politics, Theology |

Basically, our choice, then, is not between the lesser of two evils, but to choose the greater good while bearing the lesser evil. May we do that? Yes, we may.

Millennial Medievalists: Lacking Ingenuity

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 28, 2016 | Catholic Church, Culture, History, Liturgy, Music |

Do secular and devout millennials borrow from the Dark and Middle Ages because they lack the ingenuity to produce new forms of art? Hopefully, they will make progress by the Holy Spirit.

Saint Paul at the Meeting of Athens and Jerusalem

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | May 15, 2016 | Catholic Church, Culture, Ethics, Faith, History, Saints |

Christopher Dawson taught that every religion embodies an attitude to life and a conception of reality, and any change in these brings with it a change in the whole character of the culture. Thus, the prophet and the religious reformer are perhaps the greatest of all agents of social change.

Love and Lord

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | May 14, 2016 | Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, Friendship, Liturgy, Poetry, Psychology, Spirituality |

Yet surely, You are Love and Lord.
Your Light unseen has shone.
To gather us in one accord,
You make Your Presence known.

The Voice – A Poem

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Apr 26, 2016 | Featured, Literature, Poetry, Spirituality |

Initial pulses jotting out/ Sequential phrases yet in disarray,/ Like careless comets crossing starry skies,/ Their fleeting flying splendor falls from sight.