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There once lived a Greek poet by the name of Archilochus, among whose surviving fragments is the following, which I regularly inflict each semester upon great numbers of unsuspecting students: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Knowing next to nothing about either animal, they wonder if I’m making a…
Putting ourselves in contact with beauty is eminently important in order to cultivate wonder and the spiritual sense. We were created for beauty and have a need to experience it—otherwise our souls will atrophy. In Genesis, God puts man in a place of beauty, the “garden of delights,” replete with plants and animals. Seeing that…
We would have had a first selection from Philippians last week, the last Sunday of October, but the 22nd Sunday after Pentecost was superseded by the Feast of Christ the King in the Vetus calendar. Sunday’s reading from Philippians 3:17-21 and 4:1-3 is also used in the Vetus calendar on the Feast of St. Clement…
It is a curious thing being a millennial. I was born in 1988, and I find my generation to be a curious generation. We are, generally speaking, just old enough to have learned the old ways, or at least the ways that are not completely modern. I recall being raised at a time when wearing…
The majority of people would probably answer the question posed in the headline with a “No.” And ordinarily, I would go along with that majority. But I think this year God may have used the 2023 World Series to make a point. Of all 30 teams in Major League Baseball, only the Texas Rangers did…
I wholeheartedly support and bless this necessary and very important lay initiative for eucharistic revival in the Church of our day. -Bishop Athanasius Schneider Crusaders praying +Schneider’s prayer of Eucharistic Reparation at the CIC Conference, 2023 The Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation is a lay sodality run by OnePeterFive in partnership with Benedictus and LatinMass.com (Mass…
My brother, in this picture of death behold yourself and what you must one day become. “Remember that dust thou art, and unto dust thou shall return.” Consider that in a few years, and perhaps in a few months or days, you will become rottenness and worms. By this thought Job became a saint. I…
Halloween has now been and gone, leaving behind it the usual trail of controversies over how religiously-minded persons should treat the festival: as a harmless piece of spooky fun, or as an unholy feast of Satan merely disguised as an unholy piece of spooky fun. Very much in the latter camp is Fr. Jaromir Smejkal,…
The Catholic sphere is rightly occupied with emphasizing the need for two-parent homes and healthy marriages that provide children with the home lives that they have a right to. Yet, we must also acknowledge and confront the reality that an increasing number of children will be denied that. Almost a quarter of children in the…
But, Christian soul, that you may see more clearly what you are, follow the advice of St. Chrysostom: “Go to the grave; contemplate dust, ashes, worms; and sigh.” 2 Behold how that corpse first turns yellow, and then black. Afterwards, the entire body is covered with a white, disgusting mould; then comes forth a clammy,…
