Jerusalem the Golden By Mac Stewart We should think about heaven more. Yes, I know: it’s important to avoid being so heavenly minded as to be no earthly good; we mustn’t promise people pie in the sky when they die as an excuse f... Read More...
Drawing Near at a Distance By Mac Stewart I live as a guest in a Catholic religious community. Every Sunday evening, the community adores Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. At the end of this time of adoration, the community members rece... Read More...
The Second Commandment: Imagination and Contemplation Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Mac Stewart One of my favorite TV shows as a little kid was Reading Rainbow. In a book, the theme song said, you can go twice as high; you can be a king and l... Read More...
The Blessed Virgin: The Air we Breathe By Mac Stewart I recently came across a rather marvelous gem from the 19th-century Jesuit poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins. It is a poem entitled “The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe.” While Marian ... Read More...
Christmas Zeal Christmas is a time when Christians are particularly susceptible to one of the perennial temptations of religion: domesticating the gospel.
Newman on Self-deception and Self-knowledge The way truly to know ourselves is not idly to look within ourselves, but rather to look away from ourselves at the one who calls us by name, who commands us to love him by loving our neighbor, who sends us into the vineyard to work today.
Gregory the Great on Compassion and Contemplation What is the relationship between pastoral ministry and the Christian vocation of contemplation?
