Elizabeth Scalia
As Pat Gohn’s column so rightly pointed out yesterday, our Advent is like a pregnancy, and we are nearing our culmination. Finally, we come to the last week of Advent, and the gorgeous O Antiphons which precede the Magnificat at Vespers. They lead us into a quieter mindset, so that we can concentrate more fully [...]
In recommending Brent Landau’s Revelation of the Magi (excerpted here) to others, I have referred to it as “a fast read that makes the heart soar,” and the book is certainly that; the illustrations are fascinating and enlightening, and the prose-voice praising God is not just lyrical, it is hypnotically joyful. It is joyful in [...]
When we remove all obstacles to his presence he will come, at any hour and moment, to dwell spiritually in our hearts. –St. Charles Borromeo All obstacles; what can they be? Ask the question and people’s first answers will always be: “my sinfulness, my stubbornness…” But the obstacles we place before His Majesty don’t always [...]
Eve and Mary* by Sr. Grace Remington, O.C.S.O “Eve” When we left the garden we knew that it would be forever. The new world we entered was dark and strange. Nights were cold. We lay together for warmth, and because we were afraid of the unnamed animals, and of the others; we had never known [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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