Sometimes You Just Need a Little Fun
On April 24th of this year, the Opera Company of Philadelphia perfomed a “Flash Brindisi” of Verdi’s La traviata at Reading Terminal Market. Once upon a time I lived in Philadelphia – this was a treat...
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This past semester I had the joy of teaching an honors-elective course to high school Seniors entitled, “Great Catholic Thinkers.” The former instructor of the course, a very charismatic and brilliant...
View ArticleDaily Quote from Evelyn Waugh
“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.” (Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh) Print this entry
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Let’s Regroup Sometimes when you find yourself on your heels fighting a tough battle, it’s best to step back, regroup and join forces with your allies. We are in that situation now, as our very way of...
View ArticleThe Church: Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
“If we help you to read a church, we do it with the hope that you’ll be better able to pray a church. If you want to understand a church, you need to read it as a prayer book and not as an architecture...
View ArticleThe Art of Catholic Charity
The Gospel in the Secular Culture I don’t know anyone who doesn’t like art, and really, what’s not to like? Art, in all of its forms, inspires us and expresses who we are as a society, as a culture....
View ArticleFour Helpful Tips for When You Find the Rosary Difficult
My guardian angel has prayed more rosaries than I have. There’s a pious saying that if you fall asleep while praying your prayers, your guardian angel finishes them. Well, for many years, I knew I...
View ArticleThe Nature of Music and the Soul
The Nature of Music and the Soul by Matthew Cole Austin and Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg “…when lawlessness has established itself there [in music and poetry], it flows over little by little into...
View ArticleThe Nature of Music and the Soul
The Nature of Music and the Soul by Matthew Cole Austin and Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg “…when lawlessness has established itself there [in music and poetry], it flows over little by little into...
View ArticleOur Call in the Calling of Saint Matthew
“Who am I in the painting? How will I respond?” In today’s Gospel, we have a short account of Jesus’ call of Matthew by the man himself. He only spends a few verses on what was the pivotal moment of...
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