If we do not understand words, through the apprehension and comprehension of their definitions, we cannot even begin to understand the wonders and glories of the cosmos that the Word Himself has brought forth… It seems that Mark Malvasi, in his latest essay on these pages, seeks to continue what he calls our “gentlemanly epistemological [...]
In “The Mystery of the Magi,” Fr. Dwight Longenecker provides a great service by differentiating legend from Gospel and arguing that the Scriptural record is trustworthy and accurate. Mystery of the Magi: The Quest to Identify the Three Wise Men by Dwight Longenecker (320 pages, Regnery, 2017) Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s newly-released book, The Mystery of the Magi, [...]
While ushering their congregations through a period of personal reflection and preparation, clergy have in the occasion of the sermon the opportunity to aid in the rediscovery of the church’s language, both as God’s medium of judgment and as his enduring, self-revelatory vehicle to the world… For clergy preparing for their flocks a meaning-rich Holy [...]
If our making of beautiful things shows the image in us of the Maker of all beautiful things, we can see that the imagination is itself a shining forth of God’s image in us. And he said: Let us make man to our image and likeness…. And God created man to his own image: to [...]
Cpt. and Mrs. Winston Elliott IV Dedicated to Marti and Winston Elliott IV Genesis 2:18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone…” This is the first time in Sacred Scripture that our Lord says anything in creation is “not good.” The light was good. The stars and [...]
John 17:20-26 “I do not pray for these only, but also for those who believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. [...]
John 16:23b-28 23 In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father, he will give it to you in my name. 24 Hitherto you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. 25 [...]