"We can understand why Andrei Rublev was always loath to paint a fresco of the Last Judgment in the apocryphal style so popular in the Middle Ages. He was too deeply in touch with the wretchedness of man to falsify in this way the mercy of his Lord. … [Read more...]

St. Ignatius of Loyola says that there are 2 ways to enter into and pray with the Word of God: Meditation and Contemplation. (1) Meditation, for Ignatius, is Lectio Divina: a reflective approach, engaging our reason to enter into the mystery by … [Read more...]

The following are all the quotes about the liturgy from Jean Corbon's The Wellspring of Worship: The liturgy is "this unprecedented power that the river of life exercises in the humanity of the risen Christ" (56). The liturgy is "eternal … [Read more...]

My notes from Deacon Keating's article: (1) The Eucharist is the source of spiritual healing Something greater than the mantras of self-help gibberish and post-modern syncretism is demanded if spiritual healing is to occur. An encounter must occur. … [Read more...]

Repetition is an important way of disposing oneself to listen to the Lord by returning to a previous experience of prayer for the purpose of allowing the movements of God to deepen within my heart. Over a typical day of the Exercises, Ignatius … [Read more...]

My notes from Chapter 7: The Transfiguration in Jean Corbon's The Wellspring of Worship Points from the Chapter: (1) We do not really understand the Transfiguration: Celebrated "after Pentecost and in the bright light of summer (August 6th), … [Read more...]

The Intellectual Life by A.G. Sertillanges is an "entirely Thomistic work" based upon St. Thomas Aquinas' Sixteen Precepts for Acquiring the Treasure of Knowledge: "it is priceless; we should like to imprint its every word in the inmost being of the … [Read more...]

Vulnerability:  to be vulnerable is to be open and this scares us because it leaves us open to being hurt. vulnerability is necessary for a real relationship with God or else you become self-enclosed & crash on the rocks of perfectionism and … [Read more...]

Vulnerability as a place of divine encounter God acts only for the good. God acts only to share Himself as love, namely Jesus Christ. The human person is invited to respond to this revelation of love with His own vulnerability; he is invited to … [Read more...]

Notes from Deacon Keating's talk on Virginity: A Positive Approach to Celibacy for the Sake of the Kingdom of Heaven by Raniero Cantalamessa, OFM Cap Celibacy & Sacrificial Love One can live out sacrifice only if sacrifice is an offering to … [Read more...]