The Sabbath Rest is for you, not God
“The Sabbath Rest is for you, not God” by Fr. Thomas for Texas Catholic. “On the seventh day, God completed the work He had been doing; He rested on the seventh day from all the work He had undertaken. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because...
Prayer as audacious battle with God
. Paul’s description of prayer as striving on behalf of someone else has always intrigued me; the verb form he uses, agonizomenos, implies a fight, engagement in a contest where victory or defeat is at stake.
Traditionis custodes and faithful opportunities
The Extraordinary Form of the Mass can offer a beautiful combination of silence and reverent song that conveys a strong sense of divine mystery, especially in such a frenetic and noisy culture as our own.
Edith Stein — philosopher, convert, martyr, saint
The extraordinary but relatively unknown philosopher and martyr also known by her religious name of Theresa Benedicta of the Cross.
A Word to Enkindle: The path of life in Psalm 16
The first Christian Bible study was held Easter Sunday on the road to Emmaus. Cleopas and his anonymous traveling companion are wallowing in despair about the death of Jesus, to such an extent that they are fleeing Jerusalem moments after hearing reports that the tomb was empty. Jesus, unrecognized on the road, joins the conversation and steers it toward a specific goal: teaching his downtrodden disciples, then as now, how to read the Bible.