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A case for making an education in beauty with the liturgy at its heart part of everybody’s education I was intrigued by the following passage written by St Augustine in which he talks of communication of truth beyond words. What…

There a lot of books about  the spirituality of  St. Therese, and I’m not sure why.  Since this saint and doctor of the church wrote during the late nineteenth century–indeed, she missed out on being a 20th century saint by…

Pope St. Gregory the Great explains this and lots of other neat stuff about the archangels in the Office of Readings for today’s feast:

“You should be aware that the word “angel” denotes a function rather than a nature. Those…

“Perhaps we should stop seeing the office of readings as “that really long liturgical hour with those two long readings” and start thinking of it as “that really compact, efficient daily prayer & study time that makes it possible for…

Weekly Q&A Assumption Edition

by Daria Sockey August 15, 2012

You are the bridge of life and the ladder to heaven: you are a boat over the sea of death reaching to immortality.…

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Veils Off, Veils On& other Random Delight in the Transfiguration

by Daria Sockey August 6, 2012

Part of this title…

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