Which is better: taking a trip, or returning home? It may seem hard to answer this question at first. After all, there are many reasons we might enjoy traveling. It’s a chance for us to experience new places and people, and the change of scenery can even be refreshing. However, the feeling we get when [...]
One day in elementary school, my teacher was very angry with us for not understanding something she had already taught. She attempted to explain it again but was so furious that she screamed the lesson at us. I can’t even remember what the lesson was about. I only remember that my teacher was angry. I [...]
Saint Thérèse was a realist. In her childhood, she often took the smallest things to heart, to the point of shedding tears. This aspect of her childhood seems to have left its mark on her spiritual doctrine of the Little Way. It shows how humility and profound “littleness” lead the soul to embrace God profoundly. [...]
Even if Flannery O’Connor’s stories are shocking, something mysterious lies beneath the violence and absurdity: the manifestation of moments of grace. Observing these moments in O’Connor’s stories can help us recognize other moments of grace in our own time and place. We can look beyond the grotesque and recognize God’s grace shining forth from the [...]