The Reality of Christmas Magic
So hallow'd and so gracious
In Illo Tempore: 4th Sunday of Advent
With apologies to the faithful Flannery O’Connor and with no apologies whatsoever to the weirdo Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Advent could be summarized as “everything that rises must converge.” Within the rhythm of the Advent season, the 4th Sunday stands as a moment of concentration and convergence. From the beginning, the season forms the…
The Darkness Takes Me Alive
Immediately I received one of the greatest graces of my life.
One Non-Profit Against SkyNet
I plugged back into reality. And reality was beautiful.
Disembodied Antichrist Community: Good out of Evil?
It is disembodied, and thus not totally real.
Octave Day of the Immaculate Conception
"We are of opinion that it is Our duty no longer to delay."
The Oath against “Evil Screens” – Sunday within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception
Editor’s note: the Oath against Bad Movies was taken by Catholics on Sunday within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception as part of the Confraternity known in America as the “Legion of Decency.” This and other similar confraternities arose after the 1920s attempt by Hollywood to impose evil images (euphemism: “p-rnography”) on the public in…
In Illo Tempore: 3rd Sunday of Advent “Gaudete”
The Church, as she leads us through Advent, does so with a pedagogy at once sober and exultant, marked by a rhythm that quickens as the great mysteries draw near. From the 1st Sunday, when the Lord is announced as still distant yet surely coming, the liturgy – Mass and Office – presses forward with…
High School Courses for the Spring
Spiritual formation of young adults who are in High School.
VI Day in the Octave of the Immaculate Conception – St. Lucy
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4Lucy was a maiden of Syracuse, the daughter of a noble Christian family. Her mother Eutychia, being afflicted with an issue of blood, went with her to Catania, to pray before the body of the blessed Agatha. Lucy, by her…
