An American in Rome: Father Joseph A. Hickey, O.S.A.
In the community cemetery located on the campus of Villanova University, where nearly 200 Augustinians are laid to rest, there is the grave of a friar who is unique among the others for the service he once rendered in the Order. Fr. Joseph A. Hickey, O.S.A., served as 89th Prior General of the Augustinians, the […]
Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time • Year C
In a country where the common people were fortunate if they ate meat once a week and where they toiled for six days out of seven, Dives is a figure of indolent self-indulgence. Lazarus was waiting from the crumbs that fell from Dives’s table. In that time there were no knives, forks or napkins. Food was eaten with the hands and, in very wealthy houses, the hands were cleansed by wiping them on hunks of bread, which were then thrown away. That was what Lazarus was waiting for.