O, Sapientia! O, Wisdom, you came forth from the mouth of the Most High God and, reaching from beginning to end, you ordered all things mightily and sweetly. Come, and teach us the way of prudence.
Year: 2022
History is Christological, Mariological – and Josephological
A fruitful read by Peter Leithart: Man’s Marian Future. And not only is our future Marian, but so is our past and present, but only because all time is first and foremost Christological. The Saviour sums up all history, the Alpha and the Omega, the One Who makes all things new. But in leading all[…]
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him[…]
A Timeline of Church History
A brief run through the history of the Church, intriguing and informative, showing the providential design of God in leading all things to where we are now, and where we will be in the end. As fractious and fragmented as she seems, the Church is the bark of Peter, and the Ark in which we[…]
The Seven O Antiphons Explained
For seven days, from December 17th leading up to December 23rd, in the Liturgy of the Hours one encounters the seven antiphons of Advent, which are also the Gospel acclamation in the masses which are celebrated during these days. The liturgical term which these antiphons are given is The Greater Antiphons. In some places, an extra[…]
Is the Bible Green?
Here is an ad that just landed in my inbox: I don’t know about you, but any Bible with an ideological adjective is suspect, especially when the ideology itself is suspect. ‘Green’ comes with a lot baggage, not much of it good. nd if by ‘green’ we mean taking good and proper stewardship of the[…]
Venantius’ Vexilla
Today marks the traditional feast of Venantius Fortunatus (530 – 609) one of the greatest of Christian Latin poets and hymnographers, who flourished at the Merovingian court in Gaul (now France). He was given a classical, liberal arts education in Italy, which had recently been liberated from the barbarian invasions, and likely studied at Ravenna,[…]
Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him. (Saint John of the Cross, +1591)
the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may[…]
Beauty and the Beast-ly
The author asks, Why is Everything So Ugly?, and his answer is an intriguing reflection on the lack of beauty in modern New York. It’s a question we all may have pondered in our perambulations through any number of our modern urban landscape: The shoddiness and crassness of buildings of all sorts, endless homogeneous box[…]