We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to[…]
Month: August 2020
Come, we go for our people (the last recorded words of Saint Edith Stein, to her sister Rosa, as they were led to the gas chamber on August 9th, 1942)
Sunday Musical Selections
An organ piece by Buxtehude – who, as you will hear, greatly influenced J.S. Bach, who once walked 250 miles to hear him play. Now, you may listen with the click of a non-church mouse, this rendition by a new and quite brilliant up-and-coming young organist, Anne-Gaëlle Chanon And I happened upon this incomparable piece[…]
The Science of the Cross
When they got into the boat, the wind ceased. And those in the boat worshipped him, saying, ‘Truly you are the Son of God’ (Mt. 14:33). ⧾ ‘Truly you are the Son of God’ (Mt. 14:33). This is a belief that we hold firmly and truly because it is the very essence of the Christian[…]
The Psalms as Prayer
We hear a lot of the Bible at Sunday Mass. There are four readings every week, although the fourth one is usually ignored. Everyone remembers the Old Testament reading and the Gospel because they are always linked, as they are today—the nineteenth Sunday of ordinary time—in that God showed himself to Elijah only after a[…]
A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either rule them, or be ruled by them. It is better to be the hammer than the anvil. (Saint Dominic Guzman, +1221)
Beware of Communists Bearing Gifts
(This article builds upon a previous one published at Catholic Insight on December 9, 2018 under the title Trojan Horse in the City of God. The principal difference is that here is stressed the organic development of the clash between atheistic Communism and the Catholic Church over a hundred-year period.) Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad,[…]
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. (John 1:14)
Ecrasez l’Infame!
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II – it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what those who want to get rid of the Council, or at least sections thereof, realize what the effect of that may be. Like Voltaire, but[…]