RENEWED BY SHIPWRECKS
What will we save from the wreckage? Chesterton reminds us in Orthodoxy that even in a shipwreck there is hope. Continue reading RENEWED BY SHIPWRECKS
FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
the Mother of God is in a rather special sense connected with things visible; since she is of this earth, and through her bodily being God was revealed to the senses. Continue reading FEAST OF THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN
LABOR DAY
Men can sing while charging in a military, but hardly in a legal sense. And at the end of my reflections I had really got no further than the sub-conscious feeling of my friend the bank-clerk–that there is something spiritually suffocating about our life; not about our laws merely, but about our life. Continue reading LABOR DAY
FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
This is our state if we do not recapture wonder and gratitude, especially wonder at and gratitude for the transfiguration and the anticipation of heaven and the hope of the glory of seeing God face to face Continue reading FEAST OF THE TRANSFIGURATION
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS
Mary, the legitimate short cut to the love of God. Continue reading FEAST OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS
SEEING GREAT THINGS
Wisdom given by God is most definitely a virtue. God says it is a superlative virtue worth more than money. And He will give it to us without reproach ( James 1:5) In fact, to gain wisdom, we must be in a humble place. Continue reading SEEING GREAT THINGS
IN CONSTANT DANGER OF FORGETTING
The more people read Chesterton, the more chance there is that our modern world will remember everything that it is has all but forgotten. Continue reading IN CONSTANT DANGER OF FORGETTING
THE MASS WHO KNEW CHESTERTON
What kind of mass was Chesterton attending in his day and familiar with? The Tridentine Mass or the Latin Mass. What sort of response would Chesterton have given to the Motu Proprio? Continue reading THE MASS WHO KNEW CHESTERTON
THE NEW G.K. CHESTERTON
he resembles less the “Mad as Hell” angry news anchor Howard Beale in Network that Kyle Smith suggests, but more so the famed early-twentieth century writer G.K. Chesterton, who upheld conservative values for the sake of the common man and common sense. Continue reading THE NEW G.K. CHESTERTON
THE SOLUTION TO MAN’S PROBLEMS
What is needed is a change of heart that strengthens that heart not to act in a base way no matter how it is treated because it has Christ living on the inside of it Continue reading THE SOLUTION TO MAN’S PROBLEMS
NOT A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS BUT OF EXILES
It is making a home out of vagabonds and a nation out of exiles. Continue reading NOT A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS BUT OF EXILES
A LOVE OF COUNTRY
Such is the case of their local preference, their love of country, its land, its customs, its language, its culture, its heritage. The traditional patriot loves these before all other countries but not to the exclusion or harm of other countries. They want the same patriotic love for every other family and country. Continue reading A LOVE OF COUNTRY
REAL FREEDOM
The fight is upon us to guard those fences as best we can and to rely on God for the rest. We must fight it as “brave men”. Continue reading REAL FREEDOM
MEMORIAL OF THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME
Let us follow for a moment the clue of the martyr and the suicide; and take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. Continue reading MEMORIAL OF THE FIRST MARTYRS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME
FEAST OF STS PETER AND PAUL
When Christ established His great society, He made His choices not on merit or our desire, but on His higher thinking. Continue reading FEAST OF STS PETER AND PAUL
Frances Chesterton’s Birthday and The Wedding Anniversary of Gilbert and Frances Chesterton
Frances Chesterton, wife of G. K. Chesterton, was born on June 28, 1869. She married G. K. Chesterton on the same date,.June 28, in 1901. Theirs was a happy and faithful marriage of two “incompatible” people: a man and a woman. As G. K. Chesterton was later to observe in his defense of marriage: Continue reading Frances Chesterton’s Birthday and The Wedding Anniversary of Gilbert and Frances Chesterton
SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
John had the supreme adventure of birth and life becoming the precursor of Christ, preparing the people for his coming! Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE NATIVITY OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST
MEMORIAL OF ST THOMAS MOORE AND ST JOHN FISHER
Especially in difficult times of challenge, when those times always begin with friendships and relationships in the home before they ever get to the public square, the lives of the saints who faced Christ’s sword of division ( Matthew 10:33-35) give us courage. So it is with Sir Thomas More. Continue reading MEMORIAL OF ST THOMAS MOORE AND ST JOHN FISHER
FATHER’S DAY
A blessed day of remembering all our sacrificial Fathers – especially our Lord and our priests. Continue reading FATHER’S DAY
Past any desire for distinction…
“A saint is long past any desire for distinction; he is the only sort of superior man who has never been a superior person.” Continue reading Past any desire for distinction…
FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE OF HEART OF MARY
the very necessary truth of the subordination of Mary to Christ, as being after all the subordination of the creature to the Creator Continue reading FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE OF HEART OF MARY
SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
The truth is that it is the image of Christ in the churches that is almost entirely mild and merciful. It is the image of Christ in the Gospels that is a good many other things as well. Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
IN THE SAME BOAT
It means facing up to the ridicule, the anger, even the killing rage of others when they hear the truth. Continue reading IN THE SAME BOAT
MEMORIAL DAY
because it is about the dead from wars past, who need to be remembered most for the lessons they tried to teach us. Continue reading MEMORIAL DAY
SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit Continue reading SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
Happy Birthday, Mr. Chesterton!
HAPPY 147th BIRTHDAY TO GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON! Continue reading Happy Birthday, Mr. Chesterton!
DIVISION AND UNITY
When our Lord says He came to cause divisions, it behooves us to understand why and what kind Continue reading DIVISION AND UNITY
MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
O God, Father of mercies, whose Only Begotten Son, as he hung upon the Cross, chose the Blessed Virgin Mary, his Mother, to be our Mother also Continue reading MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
PENTECOST!
The Church is born! Hallelujah! Continue reading PENTECOST!
PAIN AND HOPE
Christ and His Kingdom and a new spirit – one of strength to bear up under the trials of this world aided with the Holy Spirit – not drugs or the temporary pleasure of sin. That. That is what gives us hope. Continue reading PAIN AND HOPE
THE QUEST FOR TOMORROWLAND
Who can fix the human heart? See, that’s not a technological problem, is it. No, that is a spiritual problem and one that can’t be resolved with an algorithm. Continue reading THE QUEST FOR TOMORROWLAND
THE COMING SCIENTIFICALLY ORGANIZED STATE
Science wants to be our established “Church”. It marries all arms of secularism, with Materialism being first and foremost, and by doing so gains great power. It’s man making himself god and what he can accomplish a thing to be worshipped. Continue reading THE COMING SCIENTIFICALLY ORGANIZED STATE
THE ROOT CAUSE OF DIVISIONS
We cannot solve our problems ourselves. Only Christ can do that. Only His kingdom is the answer. BUT, we can change our mind, how we see things and start seeing them from God’s view point. Continue reading THE ROOT CAUSE OF DIVISIONS
MIRACULOUS APPEARANCES!
Chesterton believed in miracles himself and wrote much about them in several works, one of which, Orthodoxy, explained why he believed in them. Continue reading MIRACULOUS APPEARANCES!
Eastertide: Divine Mercy – Immortality is the great holiday…
Another Eastertide (Octave) has come to a close with the Sunday of Divine Mercy. But the Easter Season continues! Christ is still risen! Hallelujah! Continue reading Eastertide: Divine Mercy – Immortality is the great holiday…
Eastertide: In Humility – The Cosmos begins to know its place…
When once a god is admitted, even a false god, the Cosmos begins to know its place: which is the second place. When once it is the real God the Cosmos falls down before Him, offering flowers in spring as flames in winter. Continue reading Eastertide: In Humility – The Cosmos begins to know its place…
Eastertide – Strong enough to exult in monotony : entering the Kingdom of Heaven
There would be peace if everyone understood the point Jesus was making about little children, what God is going to do to the world and what heaven is really like. Continue reading Eastertide – Strong enough to exult in monotony : entering the Kingdom of Heaven
Eastertide – Because death has been defeated…
As Chesterton reminds us, what we have in this Eastertide is not a reminder of Spring coming again, but an actual reminder of the reversal of death for all time! Continue reading Eastertide – Because death has been defeated…
Eastertide – Nothing less can raise us from the dead…
we have to face the awful exaltation of that truth. I mean the truth that Resurrection is of faith and not of any false analogy from the senses or the seasons. Continue reading Eastertide – Nothing less can raise us from the dead…
Eastertide – A God Who Knew The Way Out Of The Grave…
“His command to us “to preach the good news to all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations” ( Matt 24:14) is all about assuring such ones that we do indeed worship a God who knows the way out of their dilemma because he knows the way out of the grave!” Continue reading Eastertide – A God Who Knew The Way Out Of The Grave…
Eastertide – The peculiar chivalry of Christendom…
It is this splendour of the hopeless hope; sometimes called the forlorn hope, which has made the peculiar chivalry of Christendom, which has given to us alone the true idea of romance Continue reading Eastertide – The peculiar chivalry of Christendom…
Holy Week: Easter Sunday – What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation…
Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! For, as Chesterton observed, “we have a God who knew the way out of the grave!” Continue reading Holy Week: Easter Sunday – What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation…
Holy Week: Holy Saturday – Guarded by the authority of the Caesars…
As we enter the Great Silence, begun at the end of Good Friday when Christ was laid in the tomb, we remember that all creation was holding its breath during that time. Waiting. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Saturday – Guarded by the authority of the Caesars…
Holy Week: Good Friday – The best things in the world that are at their worst…
A man can have a change of mind and heart, a metanoia, but he needs a Savior to change his spirit. Otherwise, the other conclusion is an inevitable and very dark one. The Cross was and is the only way out of this dilemma. Continue reading Holy Week: Good Friday – The best things in the world that are at their worst…
Holy Week: Maundy Thursday – An object of faith…
On this Holy Thursday, this Maunday Thursday, we remember two things: One, as Chesterton’s quote tells us, is an object of faith that we agree to believe in and the other is a commandment demonstrating a work of faith. Continue reading Holy Week: Maundy Thursday – An object of faith…
Holy Week: Holy Wednesday – Judas with the bag…
We are wise not to forget that this simple act of betrayal was accomplished merely with trust, a kiss, and a money deal. The same features of business transactions most of us use everyday, although we might replace the kiss with a handshake. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Wednesday – Judas with the bag…
Holy Week: Holy Tuesday – The traitor is always a friend…
The difference between how betrayal was seen in Chesterton’s day when the name ‘Judas’ was still used as a public epitaph and ours is telling. It is reminding us that the atmosphere has changed. Continue reading Holy Week: Holy Tuesday – The traitor is always a friend…
