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One of my favorite moments in the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien is the arrival of the wizard Gandalf on the shores of Middle-Earth as recounted in Appendix B of The […]
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“The Lord God said: It is not good for man to be alone.”[1] Nor should he be. Yet the Church asks her priests to live a life of celibacy that […]
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And so we have come, Lady, Our day’s work done, Our love, our hopes, ourselves, We give to your Son. This is the final stanza of The Shepherd’s Carol, by […]
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I tried to come up with some stylish or sophisticated introduction to this reflection, at least something witty or clever, but all I came up with was too overly theatrical […]
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“White founts falling in the courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There is laughter like the fountains in that face of all […]
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In 1849, the English priest Fr. Frederick William Faber wrote a now famous hymn entitled “Faith of our Fathers” of the English Martyrs. The first verse and the refrain go […]
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Am I free? What even is freedom? Most definitions seem insufficient to me. Society teaches us to see freedom as our ability to do whatever we want. We are told […]
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