“The present world-wide spiritual crisis — is it not a preparation for a great, fresh renaissance? What is happening now in individual souls can be occurring in a multitude of souls. And it could be like a mighty flood, like a blinding flash of lightning in the midnight dark. The little piece of History allotted to us can and ought to be a period for us in which to assimilate being in all its dimensions. In the light of this... Read more

By Laura Chiriac Tanacu, Romania A Romanian Orthodox priest who ordered the crucifixion of a young nun because she was “possessed by the devil” and now faces murder charges was unrepentant on Saturday as he celebrated a funeral mass for his alleged victim.”God has performed a miracle for her, finally Irina is delivered from evil,” Father Daniel, 29, the superior of the Holy Trinity monastery in north-eastern Romania, said before celebrating a short mass “for the soul of the deceased”,... Read more

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When they called him to a council to judge a brother who had committed a sin, Pior arrived carrying a sack of sand on his back and a small bag of sand on his chest. Asked what it meant, the saint replied: “The sack of sand on my back represents my sins, which I do not see, the bag of sand on my chest represents the sins of my brother, whom I have to judge.” All the brothers were then... Read more

For those of you in the Asheville area, Frederica Mathewes-Green will be joining the faithful of St Raphael Mission this Sunday, June 19th — PENTECOST — for Liturgy, Kneeling Vespers & Agape Meal. All are welcome to join in the prayers of our small community this weekend (and always :). Mama Fred’s Bio Glory to God for all things! Read more

Oh, Henry, you are such a silly and delightful man. If I were twenty years older, I would be knocking on your door and bringing you my best baking, tempting you to a lonely-heart solution for a widow and a widower.” There it was. Just like that, an amorphous notion of a special bond with Kate, and Henry’s undeniable warm affection for her was suddenly held up to a light. And something about Kate’s free-spirited admission of interest in him,... Read more

Ya know? … I dunno. God help me. Like a natural woman Repliee Q1 is a robot that looks just like a woman. It gestures, blinks, speaks, breathes, and contains internal sensors so it can react to things “naturally.” As amazing as this technology is, even its co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University gets weirded out by it: “When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it’s creepy.” H/T: World GetReligion plugged this story the other day about... Read more

The best vitamin for a Christian is B1. The wages of sin is death. Repent before payday. Tithe if you love Jesus! Anyone can honk! Stolen from the St George Cathedral newsletter; submitted by Olivia Saliba. Read more

Today the West often views Islam as a civilisation very different from and indeed innately hostile to Christianity. Only when you travel in Christianity’s Eastern homelands do you realise how closely the two are really connected, the former growing directly out of the latter and still, to this day, embodying many aspects and practices of the early Christian world now lost in Christianity’s modern Western-based incarnation. When the early Byzantines were first confronted by the Prophet’s armies, they assumed that... Read more

Many of you may be familiar with David Klinghoffer’s writings in National Review. Thanks to Steve Beard’s Thunderstruck, I discovered an interview with Klinghoffer (DK) conducted by Roman Catholic, and all-round good gal, Kathryn Jean Lopez (KJL). Here’s a few excerpts — or you can read the whole interview H E R E. KJL: How can the whole of Western Civilization rest on the rejection of Jesus? DK: Because the earliest Christian church was initially hobbled by insisting that new... Read more