3 Keys to Intense Rest this Christmas

3 Keys to Intense Rest this Christmas

“All toil together and all rest together.” Virgil, Georgics Toiling together and resting together are two things we crave. These are the two main kinds of activity nature provides to join us with those we love. In these we enact our relationships and experience the...
Christmas: The Perfect Subject for Meditation

Christmas: The Perfect Subject for Meditation

Thus the Word of God while yet in the bosom of the Father was known to the Father alone; but when he was clothed with flesh as a word is clothed with a voice, then he was first made manifest and known… Thomas Aquinas For most of us meditation does not come...
Christmas: The End of the Power of Wickedness

Christmas: The End of the Power of Wickedness

…He makes His passage into mortal life at a time in which the darkness was beginning to fail, and the vast expanse of night to fade away before the exceeding brightness of the light. For the death of sin had brought an end of wickedness which from henceforth tends to...
Belloc on Observing Christmas

Belloc on Observing Christmas

Christmas is not the birth of Christ; what the birth of Christ was, and is, will never change. Christmas is a celebration, a remembrance and marking of the birth of Christ – and it has changed, and is still changing. “People ask themselves how much remains of this...
A New Attitude toward Tradition

A New Attitude toward Tradition

‘To participate in a tradition,’ ‘to be in a tradition’ means: to accept something handed down as a thing handed down. …anyone who carelessly rejects the external traditions or treats them with irony is doing something dangerous.” Josef Pieper, The Concept of...

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