Tagged: Reading

Horses and Great Silence

“They are difficult horses for mortal men to manage…” Great Books and Horses by Glenn Arbery from The Imaginative Conservative points out how one cannot fully appreciate many of the classics unless one has...

Grandeur of God and 4th Discourse

Crisis Magazine’s The Singular Catholic Vision of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Regis Martin is the first article for today. You can’t just scan over lines of poetry if you want to understand, so get...

The Power and Importance of Tradition

Holy Guardian Angels Powerful.  Boniface at Unam Sanctam Catholicam relates two tales that clearly impart the importance of tradition, even when the reasons behind it are lost. Here’s the perfect Restorationist project–something you can...

Where the Feeble Senses Fail

St. Isaac Jogues and Jean de Brebouf Those public acts of faith are so powerful.  The Dauphin models respect and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament in this short Nobility story, “The Dauphin Kneels for...

My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice

St. Catherine of Siena Forced by throat surgery to not talk, the author of this piece discovered that he began to truly listen to his wife and child, not just hear them.  And it...