Only one science is unshakeable and unshaken, the one revealed by God, the science of the hereafter! In all your works, look to Heaven, to the eternity of life and of the soul, and orient yourself then much differently from the way that merely human considerations might suggest, and your activity will be inspired for[…]
Month: November 2020
The woman who fears the Lord is to be praise…Strength and dignity are her clothing. (Proverbs 31)
St Joseph Moscati: a Faithful Labourer in the Vineyard of the Lord
On November 16th we, as a Church, celebrate the feast day of Saint Joseph Moscati, or, as he is commonly known by many who have a strong devotion to him, “the Holy Physician of Naples”. Joseph Moscati was canonized by St. John Paul II in 1987. As many would remember, this was also the year[…]
Covid Controversy and Continuing the Debate
In all things empirical – that is, truth that is gained through our senses, and experience – we should strive to be unbiased, to balance both sides of any question, to be open to revision, dialogue, and to any new evidence that arises. (A fitting thought on this day, which is the memorial of Saint[…]
Previously he came through his preachers, and he filled the whole world. Let us not resist his first coming, so that we may not dread the second. (Saint Augustine)
Finding Interest in the Ritual of Mass
More times than I can count I have been told by young men and women that they do not attend Mass because they find it boring. It’s the one statement that cannot be argued against because whatever one says in reply will also be boring. I may not find it so, but I cannot deny[…]
Covid and Its Consequences
Draconian Covid protocols are becoming more and more unhinged, sort of like Joe Biden’s apparent’ ‘victory’, and their connection with anything approximating reality more and more difficult to sustain. Locking people in their homes, and forbidding them access to anyone not in their ‘households’ is, quite simply, evil – and especially for those untold numbers[…]
A Steady Focus in Fractious Times
I sit, typing this, in my basement office in my home in Virginia as the world watches the drama of the recent elections in the United States unfold in such a way as to point to a Biden / Harris win for the positions of President and Vice President. Whether I have the respective positions[…]
Fields Where Freedom Grows
In Flanders Fields where poppies grow Lines of a poem that I know Today takes on a different meaning To those who are divergently leaning. ‘Lest we forget’; and I fear we do What tyranny seeks for me, for you. The price that was paid with precious blood In wretched sorrow, in lifeless mud.[…]
What’s Wrong with the World? Well, The Hatred of Words, and the Word
I suspect there are few people left who don’t think there’s something very wrong in the world today, whatever their political and moral leanings might be. It has always been so, more or less. Some epochs are better, others worse, but all are a mess. Ours, however, seems to be particularly messy: the culture is[…]