The Dispatch
Christ’s healings “announced a more radical healing”
On the Readings for Sunday, February 4, 2018 […]
T.S. Eliot
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Mr. Eliot’s Rose: The artist, memory, and selective vision
You have to believe something to embrace it. Only then can it become your rose, a memory we all share, yanked from the memories of […]
Essay
Epiphany and the coming of the Christ-Child
While many similarities exist between the epiphany to the Magi and the epiphany to us, important differences also surface. Our experience of the Messiah’s revelation […]
General
“I should be glad of another death”: T.S. Eliot’s timeless poem for Epiphany
With its natural imagery suggesting a spiritual coming-to-life, Eliot’s 1935 poem moves symbolically from the barrenness of winter into the verdant fertility of Christ’s arrival. […]
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“In my beginning is my end. … In my end is my beginning”
On the Readings for December 10, 2017, the Second Sunday of Advent […]
Editorial
In gratitude for the gift of the “Catechism of the Catholic Church”
How I learned that reading and studying the Catechism, Church doctrine and dogma, and theology are not ultimately about knowing things or facts but about knowing […]
Essay
On teaching the liberal arts
My maturation as a professor came when I learned to love ideas more by way of coming to love them through—in pilgrimage with, in communion […]
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When Christ’s yoke becomes ours, his Incarnation becomes our divinization
Readings: • Zech 9:9-10 • Psa 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14 • Rom 8:9, 11-13 • Matt 11:25-30 Where can we acquire truth and real wisdom? Where can we find true peace and rest? And where can […]