Meditating on Mary and Mission By Leander S. Harding I have a set of mission imperatives for the mission to modernity. They include “bringing back the Greeks,” by which I mean asking the great philosophical questions discovered by the Gr... Read More...
Militant Saints: Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Jonathan Daniels, and the Marian Call By Kenly Stewart "We are beginning to see as we never saw before that we are truly in the world and yet ultimately not of it. For through the bramble bush of doubt and fear and supposed success we are groping ... Read More...
Wearing, Eating, Loving: The Haptics of Christ-Cloven Flesh By Matt Boulter Around 2014 I read a striking repudiation of “Christian family values.” This in itself is nothing surprising, what struck me was that this came from the pen of a Christian thinker. Arguing against the (at that time) “new atheists,” Terry Eag... Read More...
Stabat Mater Dolorosa: The Blessed Virgin at the Foot of the Cross By Neil Dhingra Behold your son … Behold your mother. — John 19:25 We do not know where St. Mary has been, at least not since the miracle of Cana, after which Jesus had gone down to Capernaum with his fam... Read More...
My Marian Testimony By Leander Harding I grew up in the pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic Church. I served as an altar boy at the early morning weekday Masses which were still in Latin. When I was a 12-year-old Boy Scout I made a f... Read More...
Fifth Commandment: Honor Thy Father & Thy Mother Part of a series on the Ten Commandments. By Jean McCurdy Meade Honor thy father and thy mother, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. — D... 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...
Palm Sunday and Death’s Defeat By Clint Wilson When they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. Zechariah 12:10 Today is... Read More...
