Elizabeth Scalia
October is the month in which Catholics are encouraged to recommit to praying the Rosary. As it draws to a close, I thought I’d repost this, from a couple of years ago — a rosary prayed while contemplating the Vladimir Theotokos. The Crying Out of Flesh and God Creator and created, sharing the same flesh, [...]
In our foyer is a small, beautiful icon of Our Lady of Good Counsel, and the icon has an interesting story behind it: Each year on April 25, the feast day of St. Mark Genazzano’s patron Saint, a fair took place near the church of the Mother of Good Counsel. On that day in 1467 [...]
The wonderful Dominican Nuns of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary have produced this really lovely video to help us appreciate the Holy Rosary and to deepen our abilities to ponder the 15 fundamental mysteries they entail. I enjoyed it very much, especially the lovely soprano voices! UPDATE: The sisters did a quick [...]
Kathryn Jean Lopez and I recently commiserated with each other about how life as a writer/editor seems to translate into: “if you are awake, you’re working”. One need only look around the internet, or check the speaker’s schedule around the DC area and in New York to see how busy Lopez is, and yet she’s [...]
Pope Benedict XVI: Praising Mary is a response to Divine Prophecy David Mills at First Things: The Assumption of Mary is a difficult matter, from the Protestant point of view, because the traces and hints in Scripture are not easily found, unless you assume that they are there to be found, which somewhat defeats the [...]
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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