Elizabeth Scalia
Deacon Greg Kandra recently highlighted a beautiful video of a Our Lady of the Stars, a small community of young men in France with Down Syndrome. Also in France one will find The Little Sisters, Disciples of the Lamb, a monastic community: The Institute of the Little Sisters Disciples of the Lamb, a contemplative vocation, [...]
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 [...]
My column at First Things this week brings me back to a retreat experience that I am still processing and learning from: How does one assist at adoration and not feel inclined to bash all anger, all fear, all frustration, temptation, hopelessness, upon the cross of Christ—which can bear all things—and simply consent; simply allow [...]
Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253) When you have loved Jesus, You are chaste; when you have touched [Him], You become more pure; When you have accepted [Him], You are a virgin. Whose power is stronger, Whose generosity more abundant, Whose appearance more beautiful, Whose love more tender, Whose courtesy more gracious. [...]
Regular readers may recall that I have have ardently sung the praises of Mystic Monk Coffee for ever and ever — or at least since the boys opened shop. The Carmelite Monks, based in Wyoming, are hoping to soon begin breaking ground for the building of one awesome monastery and church, and it’s mostly being [...]
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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