Essays on religion and art: poetry and reflections, homilies.
Before the printing press margins of sacred books offered space for reflections and poetry.
All Saints signifies all people at all time who have professed and witnessed to faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God. It includes those who have gone before us, those living sometimes also are thought to have such a holiness that they are elect and those to come. The inability to know the […]
Dr. Michael Brescia could have been one of the richest doctors in the United States. Instead he chose to be one of the holiest. His Sicilian grandfather taught him that his soul is more valuable than all the money in the world at a moment he was poised to seemingly get all the money in […]
Francesca Severino Cabrini, like her patron St. Francis Xavier, wanted to bring the liberation ofthe gospel to the east. Her frail health foiled her plans to enter the Daughters of the SacredHeart, a missionary order. At 30 years old in 1880 with the help of seven fellow sisters, shefounded The Institute of the Missionary Sisters […]
October 8, 2023
Colico, Lecco Italy
Fr. Andrew O’Connor […]
Who in your serviceCan but colors makeWhich from their effectsAnd not their substance takeThe form of time. Service such as these AlpineMountains may billowAnd shake out towns,Vineyards and potatoes,Apples and meat— Desgracia — one such peas— Pezzo if you will —Is not disgrace at all,But that is glacierTo its crags clings. It is darkened just […]
A rooster and a goose fought at the Battle of Hastings
and they had a swan. They both rejected their progeny… […]
Fifty years ago, the Southern poet Allen Tate remarked in an important essay on the symbolic imagination that America is as dependent on a diminished Europe as ancient Rome was on a diminished Greece… […]