Elizabeth Scalia
My First Things piece this week confesses that I sometimes seek out a music-less mass at an early hour, just to escape the rambunctious irreverence that sometimes makes Sunday mass an opportunity to practice the virtue of patience…and endurance: Perhaps it is different where you worship, but in my parish—and I would count mine as [...]
Elizabeth Duffy has an entertaining and thoughtful entry in her column, this week as shares with us the origins of her writing: I started keeping a diary when I was about eleven. My mother suggested I start writing to cure a weird childhood insomnia that kept me up late nights worrying that I was going [...]
One of the greatest nights of my life was spent alone. My husband and sons were off camping with the Boy Scouts and I took myself to Montauk, and found a small beachfront and parked myself on a blanket under the sky. I simply watched the constellations roll by, and all the shooting stars falling. [...]
It’s no secret I am an unabashed fan of Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev and of his writings and his music, which I’ve linked to several times over the years. Joseph Susanka — who is a pretty busy guy, what with six kids, a job and his weekly column here at Patheos — managed to snag an [...]
Well, Day 1 of Lent was pretty rich. Got to lector at Mass for one of my favorite readings and psalms, which was neat. Got to spend more time at a doctor’s office than I wanted to for something so minor, but that was good, as it gave me a chance to finish Robert Hugh [...]
This is a really enjoyable report from the Catholic News Service, on dear our Pope Benedict XVI and his personal prayer: And something to think about on this Sunday: One should therefore deplore certain attitudes of mind which are sometimes found even among Christians because of a failure to recognize the legitimate autonomy of science. [...]
Deacon Greg’s homily for this weekend is especially good, and powerfully useful, I think: In the gospel, when the men who want to follow Jesus ask him where he is staying, he doesn’t give them a direct answer. “Come,” he says, “and you will see.” On one level, he’s inviting them to follow him. But [...]
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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