February 2012
“Silence is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious...”
– St. John of the Ladder, The Way of the Pilgrim
“I paint very large pictures. I realize that historically the function of...”
– Mark Rothko (via thefutureoftheworldhangsonyes)
January 2012
WatchDon’t be Negative (by MTS Digital Media Academy)
“In other words, contemporary liberalism offers religious groups a choice. They...”
– Religious Giving and Its Critics - NYTimes.com Ross Douthat (via ayjay)
“Under your
mercy
we take refuge
Mother of God;
may our petitions
not be...”
– New Liturgical Movement: The Sub Tuum Praesidium
“I never have any difficulty believing in miracles, since I experienced the...”
– @Early_Church
“For the holy Fathers assure us likewise, that if with faith and right intention...”
– The Way of a Pilgrim
CSLewisDaily: Nations, cultures, civilization—these are mortal. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, & exploit
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“A Christian priest, Bassilius Nassar, was killed yesterday in Syria while he was...”
– SYRIA/ Is the death of Father Nassar a sign of the fate of Christians?
“Tonight snow-haze, moonlight. The moonlight jellyfish itself
is floating before...”
– Poem of the week: Six Winters by Tomas Tranströmer | Books | guardian.co.uk
“You are all sons of light and sons of the day: we do not belong to the night or...”
“It is here that each of us needs to recognize which companionship allows him to...”
“When I wrote my senior essay on Wilde’s conversion to Catholicism, I...”
– @CatholicKey
“To fear the Lord is the perfection of wisdom;
she intoxicates them with her...”
“Sorrow is not contrary to perfect conformity to the will of God, so I still...”
– “Sorrow is not…
“Man fell, but God descended; man fell miserably, but God descended mercifully;...”
“A true opium for the people is a belief in nothingness after death.”...”
– @millinerd
“We cannot yet contemplate the fact that he was begotten by the Father before the...”
“Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?”
– John, chapter 1
WatchWhat is the New York Encounter? (by Karen Kaffenberger )
“So they went and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day.”
– John, chapter 1
“If you’re following infinite beauty, you’re content to wait a bit...”
– A Misplaced Hunger | Late Papers
“Be still before the Lord and wait in patience. —Ps 37:7”
“By loving your neighbour, by having care for your neighbour, you are travelling...”
– St. Augustine, Tractate on St. John
“Let what you heard from the beginning remain in you.”
– 1 John, chapter 2
“The appearance of renunciation will be useless-More exalted & more valuable...”
– @innocentsmith