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by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Bess Atwell, Chesterton, Divorce, Father Luigi Giussani, News | 0 |
The song begins pleasantly enough. In a track from her album “Already, Always,” English folk singer Bess Atwell sings sweetly about walking in the rain to her significant other’s house, wondering if her contentment means “I love you more than I thought I did before.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Bess Atwell, Chesterton, Divorce, Father Luigi Giussani, News | 0 |
The song begins pleasantly enough. In a track from her album “Already, Always,” English folk singer Bess Atwell sings sweetly about walking in the rain to her significant other’s house, wondering if her contentment means “I love you more than I thought I did before.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 10, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Autumn, Featured, News, October, Sacrament, St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica | 0 |
I sometimes joke that I sin less in October. But it might actually be true. God seems to be more on my mind during the fall, and, therefore, it seems easier to seek out and cooperate with his grace.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2022 | Aldi, Already/Not Yet, Artificial sugar, Chance the Rapper, Cocoa Butter Kisses, Cub Foods, Mother’s affection, News, Seven Story Mountain, simone weil, Thomas Merton | 0 |
Americans are addicted to sugar. And unsurprisingly — it’s added to nearly every normal, everyday processed food or drink you’ll come across at Cub Foods or Aldi, from marinara sauce to granola. As a result, the average American consumes nearly three times more sugar per day than what’s recommended.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 12, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Little Flower, News, St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul | 0 |
When I first read St. Therese of Lisieux’s “Story of a Soul,” I was not impressed. In fact, I found “the Little Flower” to be more than a little obnoxious.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, civic responsibility, Florida, Fourth of July, Fourth of July parade, Highland Park, Illinois, independence, Interdependence, News, Parkland, Patriotism, Texas, Uvalde | 0 |
The Fourth of July is our national holiday to celebrate the most American of virtues — independence. The day is obviously about commemorating the historical anniversary of our country’s separation from Great Britain. But more deeply, I’d argue it’s about reaffirming the paramount importance of our own individual independence, the basis for our country’s founding and the existential blood that still flows through our culture and institutions, even while other values like patriotism and civic responsibility have seemingly run thin.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, I am, I am loved, News, Tribulations | 0 |
Life can be difficult. It can be confusing. It can be painful. And sometimes — and maybe worst of all — it can be experienced as something drab and dreary; insignificant, empty and without ultimate meaning — which, in turn, makes all the various trials and tribulations we experience on a daily basis all the more difficult to bear.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 11, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Asceticism, Blessed Mother, Budding Trees, Holy Cross Church, News, Summertime asceticism | 0 |
From the third-floor attic of the house in which I live, on the campus of Holy Cross church in Northeast Minneapolis, I have a perfect view of the statue of the Blessed Mother in the courtyard down below and — if I crane my neck — of the stone cross atop the church’s facade.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Infant Baptism, News | 0 |
I had the great privilege of witnessing my nephew’s baptism this past weekend. Prior to the holy water being poured over his head, he stated his desire to be baptized into the Church, affirmed that he clearly understood what he was undertaking and made his profession of faith.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Alanis Morsette, Already/Not Yet, ash wednesday, G.K. Chesterton, Ironic, News, rules, Servais Pinckaers, St. Thomas Aquinas, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
Like a line out of Alanis Morsette’s nineties pop hit, “Ironic,” my birthday this year fell on Ash Wednesday. It was the first time, as far as I know, that the date celebrating my life on this earth coincided with the solemn day the Church reminds us of our mortality, and that, left to our own devices, we are merely dust.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 3, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Egypt, New York, New York City, News, Nietzsche, The New York Encounter | 0 |
One of my favorite Catholic events takes place this month: the New York Encounter, Feb. 18-20.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Already/Not Yet, Carmelite nun, Church is not a museum, Lisieux, little way, News, st. therese | 0 |
I recently had the good fortune to take a post-Christmas trip to France, a place I’ve long admired for its Catholic culture and intellectual heritage. Although most of my time was spent amidst the museums, gardens and boulevards of Paris, a priority destination for me was the town of Lisieux, where the much-celebrated St. Thérèse had spent most of her childhood, lived as a Carmelite nun before dying in 1897 in her 20s, and is buried today.
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