“Our Lord explains in the Parable of the Sower that the seed of His love will only grow in a certain soil–and that is the soil of Christian Culture, which is the work of music in the wide sense, including as well as tunes that are sung, art, literature, games, architecture–all so many instruments in the orchestra which plays day and night the music of lovers; and if it is disordered, then the love of Christ will not grow.
-John Senior
The Restoration of Christian Culture
Discover five powerful lessons for Catholics today from Zita’s life as wife, mother, and servant of God. The last Catholic empire crumbled under Zita’s feet, her husband died an untimely death in exile, and she raised eight children on her own. She wore only black for over 60 years for she had much to mourn…
A Traditional Catholic Holy Water for Expectant Mothers and the Sick The first thing I do when I find out I’m pregnant is go to a priest for a special pregnancy blessing and bring some water with me so that he can bless it in honor of Bl. Torello of Poppi. Did you know that…
Estote ergo prudentes sicut serpentes, et simplices sicut columbæ. Be ye therefore prudent (prudentes) as serpents and simple as doves. Matthew 10:16 Prudence is so often used as an excuse for cowardice, that we have come to mistake it for timidity or cautiousness. When we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place, it…
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote the following aphorism: “A dangerous resolve.— The Christian resolve to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[1] Like most of Nietzsche’s aphorisms, this short sentence carries a great deal of meaning. Among other things, it succinctly and articulately captures Voltaire’s anti-Christian sentiment, an impressive feat that…
Part I in this two part series can be found here. But doesn’t Christ sort of do away with all these particular loves and duties? Remember the story from the Gospels: Jesus is preaching when a man comes into the room to tell Him that His mother and brethren have arrived and wish to speak…
One of the truths proclaimed across space and time is that human beings are not simply called to love all, but to love their neighbor in particular. Too often, however, in our age, Christians use the second of the two greatest commandments to obscure this truth. We jump so quickly to the conclusion that “all…
Easter is coming. We look forward to announcing that joyful battle cry of the Church Militant, “He is Risen!” But before we may taste this joy, we must taste the bitter waters of Good Friday. We must reflect on the Via Dolorosa and the Death that shook the world and blotted out the sun. G.K….
Last year, I taught “Oedipus Rex” to a group of 20-year-old sophomores at a tiny Christian college in Florida. After a few moments in class, I noticed that the story had not moved them the way (I thought) a tragedy was supposed to. It seemed to have filled them with neither pity nor fear, but…