Embracing a favorite monastic discipline
Happy All Hallows Day. In the Middle Ages, this day - the first of November: All Saints Day - was known as the beginning of the “dark half of the year…
Greetings, friends. It has been some time since I’ve sent a dispatch from this newsletter, and I’m grateful to be saying hello. My summer was…
Today, June 24th, is the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Solemnity is celebrated on the Friday that follows Corpus Christi. Devotion to…
disjointed sermons, disjointed substacks
I have been ending dozens of emails a day this week with valedictions that sound like this: With all best wishes for a peaceful Holy Week, Here’s hoping…
50% spite/50% grace
“Folk Tale” - R.S. Thomas The poem “Folk Tale” first landed in my consciousness thanks to a sermon – a good one – I heard in Los Angeles sometime in…
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