Do I Really Need Another Lent?
We are made to languish in this vale of tears, so why not fast?
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‘Festivitas’ — A Recipe for Joy
Those who refuse joy, who will neither love nor be loved by another, make themselves first cousins to despair.
Human Love Is Never Enough
If God is love, then human love can work only to the extent it allows itself to be filled with God, overflowing with his love.
On Loving the Unlovable
What exactly is the job of love? It is nothing less than the effort to promote the real and permanent good of another person.
On the Unity of God and Truth
Those who deny the truth should not imagine their actions immune to judgment.
The Light of Christ Defeats the Darkness of Idolatry
“For all the gods of the nations are idols, but the LORD made the heavens.” (Psalm 96)
On These Last Days Of December
This week, we are especially reminded that the Maker of the universe “became his own making” — and that Christ and his saints were born in order to die.
The Incarnation of Jesus Christ and the Problem With Plato
Amid the silence of the stars, God truly comes into our world — an event that renders everything different.
On Being Good Because God Is
If to do evil is permitted only in a world without God, it follows that to do good becomes possible only in a world where there is God.
On Monks and Mothers and the Mystery of Life
If we reject the truth that sex is about babies, then it is not likely that we shall survive, or that we deserve to.
