Trials, Purification and Transfiguration
And He was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became dazzling white (Mt. 17:2).
On the second Sunday...
Loving Your Home
Sometime contributor to these pages, Rebecca Jacobson - and her own Mum - have a delightful and quite lovely blog, lovingyourhome, which is well...
Canada at the Gates of…
“It is gravely unjust to enact laws that legalize euthanasia or justify and support suicide, invoking the false right to choose a death improperly...
First Sunday of Lent: Our Mess, and God’s Remedy
(A helpful meditation from parish priest Father Robert Weaver. I couldn't help but just add as an intro that I'm intrigued by the three...
Three Settings of the Ave Regina Caelorum: Lobo, Palestrina and Victoria
Alonso Lobo (1555 - 1617) was a Spanish composer, a near-contemporary of the great Palestrina and Victoria, famous during his lifetime, and considered their...
First Sunday: The Hope and Joy of Lent
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we began the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
Matthew’s Lessons on Lenten Humility
If one can get past the nauseating image of John the Baptist dining on locusts, (which may our own lot soon - Ed.) chapter...
The Backstory of the Daily News: Notes on Science, Politics and Gnosticism by Eric...
(Eric Voeglin (1901-1985) was a German political philosopher, who narrowly escaped the Gestapo, and spent most of his life in America. He wrote voluminously,...
A Primer for Our Lenten Pilgrimage
‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve only Him’ (Mt. 4:11).
On Ash Wednesday we begin the observance of the holy season of Lent with...
Sunday Poem: A Riddle
The Professor loved to laugh.
Social propriety piqued him.
Practiced in the Grand Art of Comedy,
he was an untiring scoffer; an assailant on the dismal.
He knew...