Medieval Ressourcement and the Mysticism of St. Thomas: An Appreciation of Urban Hannon’s Thomistic Mystagogy
They inhabited a mystical world whose spell could not be broken by even the most relentless logician.
How to Profit from Good Books and Avoid Bad Ones
We cannot always have access to a spiritual Father for counsel in our actions, and particularly in our doubts.
Saturday within the Octave of Corpus Christi
From the sermons of St. John Chrysostom and St. Augustine.
The Prayer of Jesus in the Garden
You may here discover the real secret of obtaining consolation in affliction.
Let us Labor to Save our Souls
Learn then to profit of the time which God in his mercy gives you.
The Body in the Grave
The worms, after having consumed all the flesh, devour one another.
The Body on its Death Bed
I thank Thee for not having taken me out of life when I was Thy enemy.
A Gentle Mountain Man: Meeting St. Benedict
The Abbot should “temper all things that the strong may have something to strive after, and the weak may not fall back in dismay.”
Adorning the Soul with Allegorical Gems
This symbolic way of reading the liturgy has deep roots in the Apocalypse of John, and is nothing less than the monastic habit of lectio divina applied to the liturgy.
Mary: His Last Gift to Us
Listen how she says to you from the foot of the Cross, where she is sorrowfully attending the last agonies of her dying Son, “Behold, I am your Mother.”
Eyes Wide Open: A Chestertonian Exhortation
Rise thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead: and Christ shall enlighten thee. –Ephesians v. 14 We Catholics live in a world that is weary of itself and awaits liberation. A new calendar year dawns, and yet the same old thing is true. Indeed, the Apostle writes, Every creature groaneth and travaileth in pain,…