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...
Tagged: Saints
Refuge of the Human Race and 9th Discourse
Liturgia Latina’s post Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary presents the act composed by Pope Pius XII for the consecration of the entire world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in...
Medieval Bookmarks and 8th Discourse
You know that little thrill that one gets upon happening across an old fragment of paper, a card, newspaper cutting or any random flat object that has been used as a bookmark in an...
Francis Watch, Episode 25: Teresa of Calcutta, The Eighth Work of Mercy, and Jet Lag
In this “Italian summer lull” edition of Francis Watch, we examine the month of August in the non-pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio. We begin by discussing the “canonization” of Teresa of Calcutta and why she...
Materialism and 7th Discourse
Theodore Rebard writes for Crisis Magazine, The Origins of Modern Materialism , a revealing piece that traces today’s materialistic mentality back in time to the early fifteenth century, along with its relation to thinking...
Existence. Obedience. Sanctuary.
Today, we have The Thinking Housewife expounding upon what it means to “become as little children” in the post The Secret of Existence. Not only are simplicity and littleness required, but also, and perhaps...
Behold My Anguish and 6th Discourse
Why should we Console Mary? from the Catholic Kingdom is a brief reading pertinent to September, the month set aside by the Church in honour of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary....
Too Much Liberty and 5th Discourse
A spiritual giant whose severe mortifications are jaw-dropping, America’s first ever canonized saint, like the penitential spiked metal crown upon her head obstructed from view by a wreath of roses, she was a young...
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...
Identity
Personal identity is not a matter of preference or selection. In his article Personal Identity is Not Chosen at Crisis Magazine, James Kalb gives a thorough explanation of what personal identity is, the ways...
