Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | The Christian Review

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.

The False God of Diversity Versus Catholicity

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 5, 2017 | Catholic Church, Culture |

Diversity without morality, then, has become a false Catholicity promoted by the Devil who mocks the universality of the Church. As an end in itself, diversity is a false god that stretches ever outward to wider peripheries causing division, not unity.

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.