For nearly two thousand years, the pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been the pinnacle of Christian religious experience and a byword for trust in divine providence. There is one place that captivates the pilgrim more than all the rest. Because in the most consequential of lands, it is the most consequential city this side [...]
The friar has come a long way from the young man he was when he entered. He is ready to promise everything forever. He is not capable of adding anything to Christ, but he offers the only thing he can: all of himself. Note: Nowadays, the young man who enters St. Joseph’s Province to be [...]
Christ likened himself to Jonah, but he also bears resemblance to the whale. Though whaling ships no longer set sail from New London or New Bedford, the whale still remains, plumbing the deep. Though sometimes Christ seems no longer known and honored in the world, he still remains: the king of the sea, the sea [...]
The human heart desires to sing. Enlivened by God, it seeks, at its most basic, to make a worthy return to the Lord in songs of praise and thanksgiving. Language can be beautiful. Order is peaceful and pleasing. The combination of the two—ordered language—gives man the stuff with which to fill his lungs. Down through [...]
Left to our own devices, we tend toward tragedy. Enter Jesus Christ. The Playwright himself has entered into his play, and he has come to take tragedy and completely transform it. In this act, he assumes all our tragic tendencies into his glorious and salvific Passion. The Lord’s tragedy turns our own tragedies into the [...]