Bringing Forth New and Old, Today

Bringing Forth New and Old, Today

Perhaps the greatest challenge in our home today is how to integrate the new and the old. Essential to grasping this challenge is realizing our unusual situation. Things have been changing at an extraordinary pace, and any way you slice it this makes for a difficult...
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...
Keeping Traditional Observances

Keeping Traditional Observances

“…anyone who carelessly rejects the external traditions or treats them with irony is doing something dangerous.” Josef Pieper “Indeed, modern men, who lack such things, lack sustenance, and our fathers who founded all those ritual observances were very...
The Window of the New Year

The Window of the New Year

“On New Year’s Eve, at about quarter to twelve o’clock at night, the master of the house and all that are with him go about from room to room opening every door and window, however cold the weather be, for thus, they say, the old year and its burdens...

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