May 21, 2021
“Like the new mother, burdened with milk for the child, so the poet with the word within him, addressed to others.”
Paul Claudel was born in 1868 in rural northeastern France. He absorbed the poetry of Walt Whitman and Arthur Rimbaud while in his teens, and experienced a religious epiphany at Notre Dame cathedral...
May 16, 2021
“True, we should esteem the things that make for the glory of God, but we should show the greatest esteem for those that concern the will of God.”
This week, we conclude our series of readings from St. Alphonsus’s Uniformity with God’s Will.
In these final chapters, St. Alphonsus turns his attention to times of...
May 2, 2021
“...at the moment of Joseph's own ‘annunciation’ he said nothing; instead he simply ‘did as the angel of the Lord commanded him’. And this first ‘doing’ became the beginning of ‘Joseph's way’. The Gospels do not record any word ever spoken by Joseph along that way. But the silence of Joseph has its own...