Eucharistic Solidarity: a Reflection on Corpus Christi
The Eucharist provides us with the opportunity for a solidarity with the world that is unmatched and unheard of.
Category Archives: Spirituality
The Heart of the World
This was a difficult Lent, and not just because of the impending birth of our third child, the stress that …
What We Can Learn From The Divine Office, or, Why Culture Matters
I was recently asked to answer a question about the structure of the rosary, which got me to speaking about …
Christ is Still the Answer
The Enlightenment and its ideas of near-total moral relativism created the stuff of Hitler and Stalin. “Without God,” as Dostoevsky wrote, “all things are permitted.”
Giovanni and His Rome Beneath the Surface
Young Giovanni had a talent for letters. A piece marble with ancient writing on it would propel him through a series of events that would change his life and ours. Read about it
here.
St. Ambrose, Model Bishop
Some years ago, as I was fishing about trying to find a suitable topic for my master’s thesis, I …
For the Love of Neighbor…
The forearm is on display not in mere virtue of its owner’s friendship with Ignatius. It is on display because its owner, St. Francis Xavier, was one of the most successful missionaries in the history of Christianity.
Feast of St. Edmund Campion
The puny sacrifices of our day, in the plush luxury of American modern life, are obscenely indicative of just how far we have gotten away from the visceral faith of our fathers.
On the Feast of St. Andrew
I think for this, St. Andrew ought to be some patron of writers. Those with writer’s block or struggling with the prospect of starting a book ought to pray to St. Andrew.
What Lazarus Has to Teach Us, and Caryll Houselander As Well
Caryll is the spiritual writer for the woman at the sink, washing the dishes. She is the writer for the fellow in the car, once again off to work in the dark hours of the morning only to return home in darkness again.
The Feast of Pope St. Leo the Great
Pope St. Leo the Great makes it clear that almsgiving is not an option but a necessity for the spiritual life. By it we redeem our sins.
Image of Our Calling
This feast helps us to remember that the great basilicas of the world are physical reminders of the glory that awaits us in heaven, and of the glory which exists within us if only we would clear out the stain of sin and allow Christ’s healing hand to work its craft.
Christ Pantokrator
Oh, the mercy of God is a beautiful thing.
Sts. Crispin and Crispian
This is one of the messages of the Social Teaching of the Catholic Church. Sanctity and evangelization can be found through the labor of everyday life. It is less what you do than the way you do it.
The Passion of St. Paul of the Cross
I would encourage everyone on this day of St. Paul of the Cross to consider Christ crucified, and concentrate on the man on the tree, quivering in pain, solicitous of nothing more from us but the acknowledgment that we do love Him for all he suffers for us.