On a hot summer morning, as the story goes, sometime just before 1150, Guigo, a Carthusian of the Grande Chartreuse was hard at work in the garden of his cell when he was struck by the image of prayer found deep in the bowels of the Old Testament. As he meditated on...
The Old Testament Mass reading from Hosea chapter 2 is a powerful reading and some background is in order and shows how we are pursued by the Lord. In chapter 1, Hosea is told to marry Gomer who is described as a promiscuous woman. Hosea does so and they are blessed...
In the age of the Internet, iPhones, social media, and other technological amenities of the 21st century, is learning from the pages of centuries old writing even relevant anymore? Have we not progressed as a society where psychologists, depression medicine, and other...
On a hot summer morning, as the story goes, sometime just before 1150, Guigo, a Carthusian of the Grande Chartreuse was hard at work in the garden of his cell when he was struck by the image of prayer found deep in the bowels of the Old Testament. As he meditated on...
As Catholics, we have the fullness of Truth in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition. However, not every custom and legend is part of Scared Tradition. Some are details and stories that developed decades and even centuries after they supposedly happened. These pious...
