From the Introduction to Work, Play, Love: How the Mass Changed the Life of the First Christians by Mike Aquilina Culture begins at the banquet table. In every religion, at every time in human history, shared feasts have formed—or deformed—the culture.Sharing...
Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. At age 13 she and her parents, Edward O’Connor and Regina Cline O’Connor, moved to the small town of Milledgeville in central Georgia to live near Regina’s large extended...
Lord, Make Me An Instrument of Your Peace: The Complete Prayers of St. Francis and St. Clare, with Selections from Brother Juniper, St. Anthony of Padua, and Other Early Franciscans by Jon M. Sweeney We do not immediately associate Francis...
January 2020 — This is not just another book about Auschwitz after thousands of accounts have told the horrors of the Nazi death camps. From the foreword by Abbot Denis Farkasfalvy, “This book is an autobiographical sketch, written by...
Testing is a part of life. It was certainly a part of Jesus’ life. Luke’s reflective narrative on testing brings us to the recognition that testing can take many different forms and take place at many different times in our...
Lead Us Not into Temptation is a daily devotional/ study for Lent on the subject—we should say, the experience—of temptation. Jesus taught us to pray, “Lead us not into temptation,” which mysteriously implies that God could, and perhaps sometimes does....
“Look,” I said, index finger tapping a dictionary entry, “‘Lent,’ in its root word, means ‘spring.’” My two young sons glanced out the window at the snowcovered yard. “That means Lent is a time for us, like other living things...
As I write this I am sitting in my parents’ living room in the wee hours of the morning. The only lights come from the computer screen and the twinkling glow of the Christmas tree. I have finally settled my...
Cloud Devotion is based upon The Cloud of Unknowing, one of the great classics of Christian spirituality. It was written in the middle of England perhaps near Nottingham, in the middle of the fourteenth century. The anonymous author wrote in the language of common people, not...
