Something for Sunday Morning
"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."
St. Ambrose
Topic
Religion
A collection of 879 issues
From the Notebooks
November 2003
When I used to see large families (say, families with five or more children),
the idea always creeped into my mind that one or more of the children are, for
lack of a better term, expendable.
That's not quite the right term, but let me illustrate
He turned a symbol of hate and torture into one of love and mercy
In the 1930s, the Times (London) asked G.K. Chesterton and others to write on
the topic of "What's Wrong with the World Today." Chesterton sent back a
two-word response:
Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely, G.K. Chesterton
"For all that ever was wrong,
Something for Palm Sunday Morning
"The story of each man is the story of God's continual watchfulness over him.
Each man is the object of the Lord's special love. Jesus was ready to do
everything for Jerusalem, but the city was not willing to open up her gates to
his
Feature Essay
Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing
the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed
its fury on the God Man, that wicked man was freed to go. We don't know what
happened to him, but on
Something for Sunday Morning
"Our friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances have to find us loyal,
sincere, cheerful, optimistic, good at our job, resilient, pleasant, courageous
. . . At the same time, in a simple and natural way, we must make known our
faith in Christ."
Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God
Something for Laetare Sunday Morning
Joy in the Cross
Today, "the Church wishes to remind us that joy is perfectly compatible with
mortification and pain. It is sadness and not penance which is opposed to
happiness."
Francis Fernandez, commenting on one of the most bizarre teachings of
Christianity in the eyes of modernity&
Feature Essay
If you're an American Catholic, you're an oxymoron . . . or maybe just a moron,
I'm not sure.
Don't take offense. I'm an American Catholic. I'm content to be oxymoronic, and
I feel like a moron sometimes. I love America
Something for Sunday Morning
“Temptations are permitted so we may learn what is in our heart.”
Tikhon of Zadonsk
Feature Essay
The Catholic Economy
Silent Spain, slumbering Spain, solitary Spain. Max Picard
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0971748314/thedailyeudem-20], possibly
the best writer ever of thin thick books, loved old Spain. Writing in the
mid-twentieth century, before Madrid became a blare of horns and Toledo a blast