Elizabeth Scalia
Posted in Lent, Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2012
Well, it’s Ash Wednesday, thanks, thanks be to God! We head into forty days of intentional slowing-down, of being more prayerful, more thoughtful, less reactive. I don’t know about you, but I totally need some Lenten silence, discipline and turning away from the world, especially the world of politics right now. If you’re not sure [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2012
So, my first simple book giveaway has yielded three winners…which is good, because I only have three books! And the winners — totally drawn at random by Patheos employees at the home office — are: KathyJ — Bob Hostetler — Debbie Whitney Come on down! You’ve just won copies of Paula Huston’s excellent Simplifying the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
Simcha Fisher is doing a book give-away, and it’s a book I completely and utterly want to read! And that reminds me: as the Patheos Book Club winds down its look at Paula Huston’s Simplifying the Soul, they’re giving me three copies to give away myself. We’ll keep it simple, because I like simple! In [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 21st, 2012
Two Tebow pieces of interest to Tebow fans: First up, Joseph Bottum, who made a big hit with his Christmas-themed Amazon Single (a short ebook) Dakota Christmas, has published another one, this time on Tebow: The Gospel According to Tim: Believe in him, I mean: believe that he’s for real. The young man is drunk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2011
That’s my photo of Raphael’s Triumph of the Cross over Paganism. Like all of my photos it’s short-sighted and a little off-center. Like me. I wanted to write something of my own for Holy Thursday,, but the day completely got away from me, thanks to running around getting Buster’s lungs seen-to and narc’d up. My [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2011
” . . . let us spread before his feet, not garments or soulless olive branches, which delight the eye for a few hours and then wither, but ourselves, clothed in his grace, or rather, clothed completely in him. We who have been baptized into Christ must ourselves be the garments that we spread before [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2011
Part of my Lent has been re-reading the Holy Rule of St. Benedict, pertinent to the day. It’s been speaking to me in very personal and private ways. Today as I contemplate a great decision that involved travel and has me doubting and unsure, the lesson is about stability, which is actually one of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2011
It’s been a difficult Lent, for me, at least. Lots of things to ponder, and so little free time to really do it. One thing I’ve learned this Lent is that I am lending more time to work than to the things that matter. Not that work doesn’t matter. It certainly does, and I love [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2011
Have mercy, Lord, on me in my remorse! Lord, have mercy if my prayer rises to you: do not chastise me in your severity. Less harshly, always mercifully, look down on me, on me. Never let me be condemned to hell in the eternal fire by your severity. Almighty God, never let me be condemned [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 9th, 2011
Comments are closed for the weekend. Let us reclaim our Lenten focus. Image Source We think that in prayer we speak to God, and we are not wrong to think so. But the heart of prayer is that God speaks to us. It is not God whose mind is changed by our prayer, but we [...]
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.
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