The Art of Dress – On Materials
"Synthetics furnish a world where man would become his own god."
Wednesday in the Octave of the Ascension
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. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa.Discourse on the Lords Ascension.The very thought of this day’s Festival is great enough in itself, but the Prophet David hath much inflamed our joyful enthusiasm by the…
Georges Bizet
On June 3, 1875, exactly 150 years ago, Georges Bizet passed away under mysterious circumstances in Bougival, near Paris, at the young age of 36. Despite his short life, his opera Carmen stands as a landmark work that “significantly contributes to the modernization of the genres of French musical theater and influences the developments of…
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…
