As we begin the most solemn time of year we call Holy Week, leading up to the great Triduum, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, bringing us to the high point of the liturgical year at Easter, we should reflect more intensely on the humanity of Christ and His suffering, through which He gained […]
Each year, we here at Our Lady Seat of Wisdom take a late-winter pilgrimage on March 16th to Martyrs’ Shrine in Midland. (This year, we went on Saturday, the 14th, due to scheduling, but back on track for next year!) Of course, the shrine itself is closed, and usually blanketed in deep, wet snow. […]
On the morning of February 11, 1858, a young French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous, saw a luminous vision in a grotto in southern France, beginning a series of ‘visions’ of what the Catholic Church now believes was the Virgin Mary. When asked her name by Bernadette, the Lady replied in French patois, Que soy Immaculatou […]
Quebec is celebrating a Jubilee Year on the 350th anniversary of the founding of their cathedral, Notre Dame, the oldest and principal church in all of North Amercia, and I just returned from a pilgrimage there with some students from the college at which I work. Quebec, as such, is the primatial see, the first […]
Brittany Maynard took her own life on November 2nd; one might almost say ‘appropriately’, as it was the commemoration of All Soul’s in the Christian religion, but, then, there is nothing really appropriate about suicide, whether assisted or not. You may recall that Mrs. Maynard, a young and beautiful newlywed, whose story, incarnated by the […]
Sero te amavi… “Late have I loved Thee, O beauty ever ancient and ever new…” So wrote Saint Augustine in the opening pages of his Confessions, in Latin prose that has scarcely ever been matched, before or since. His classic work is seen as the first real autobiography, offering a sometimes brutally honest glimpse […]