Spera in Deo: the Single Life Before Marriage
For Catholics in search of a spouse, bitterness and resentment slowly start to creep in.
Tuesday in the Octave of the Ascension
Above: Giotto (1266–1337) From the Roman office. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4From the Sermons of St. Maximus, Bishop of Turin.43rd, 2nd on Pentecost.My holy brethren, ye remember that I have likened the Saviour to that eagle, touching which it is written in the Book of…
Sacred Heart Month Begins!
Let us be worthy of the name "Christian."
Monday in the Octave of the Ascension
Above all these hath One of our nature been exalted.
Colligite Fragmenta: Sunday after Ascension Thursday
Our Sunday is ensconced in the novena days after the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord and the mighty day of Pentecost. Church’s liturgical calendar gives us … gave us, at least, until about 1970 an Octave for Pentecost was removed which allows us to contemplate the mystery of the Holy Spirit’s descent from…
The Stigmata (Miracles, Part 5)
"I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus in my body."
The Catholic Vision of Novalis
Above: Caspar David Friedrich‘s Monk by the Sea (ca. 1808). Friedrich was influenced by Novalis’s aesthetic theories. Last year, Angelico Press published one of the most intriguing theoretical texts by the poetic genius of 18th-century Germany, Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), better known under the pen name Novalis. Titled Christendom or Europe?, it was included…
Trump & Russia: Put not thy trust in presidents
American Catholics will reap the bitter harvest of their corrupt support for Trump and their betrayal of their fellow-Catholics in Ukraine.
To Arthur’s Britain
Arthur was eventually hailed as one of the three great heroes of Christendom as a whole.
The Deeper Themes of Lew Wallace’s Ben Hur
"I devoted myself to vengeance long ago."
