Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints...
It isn't the most difficult mountain to climb, but in many ways the most impressive. The top of the world, the highest spot one can stand on the earth's surface, so high that the...
The ironically-named Sam Bankman-Fried has certainly taken it to the bank, freed from the bonds of justice that should have him locked up. His cryptocurrency company – FTX – has allegedly bamboozled investors out...
Behold, the pagans have trodden your cross underfoot! Where is your glory? As I see all this, I would, in the ardent love I have for you, prefer to be torn limb from limb...
Your heart must rejoice beyond words, soaring into an immensity of gladness, unrestrained by syllabic bonds. Sing to him with jubilation. (Saint Augustine)
to the only God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and for ever. Amen. (Jude 1:25)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) was a Catholic priest, but one who spent much of his time as a composer than a pastor due, as he confessed, to his own precarious health. This was...