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by bcadmin | Oct 8, 2021 | Books and Art, Culture, Featured, History, News, rosary, The Battle of Lepanto | 0 |
On Sunday, October 7, 1571, a group of naval forces from Spain, Naples, Sicily, Venice and Genoa, led by Don Juan of Austria, met the Ottoman forces in the Gulf of Lepanto, off of Western Greece. Cervantes’ own ship, the Marquesa, was part of the Christian fleet. When the fighting began, Cervantes was very sick, […]
by bcadmin | Sep 21, 2021 | Books and Art, Culture, Featured, Heaven, Mother Angelica, Music, News, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The first Christians sang all the time, sometimes even as they were in the arena waiting to be devoured by lions. Can you imagine what a beautiful song that must have been to God?
by bcadmin | Sep 13, 2021 | Books and Art, Featured, News | 0 |
If you think a novel set in 14th century Norway has to be dull, think again. Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter is such a book, and far from being a bore, it is surely one of the most exciting works of fiction ever—to say nothing of being the finest Catholic novel. The three volumes that together […]
by bcadmin | Jul 26, 2021 | Books, Books and Art, Featured, Fulton J. Sheen, News, Sacraments | 0 |
I’ve often been asked which Catholic books I have in my home. I must admit that years ago my response would have been: “I have a few Bibles and a few books on lives of the saints”, but that was it. And most were acquired as gifts marking sacramental or special occasions. Perhaps like so […]
by bcadmin | May 17, 2021 | Books, Books and Art, Featured, News, summer reading | 0 |
The lazy days of summer should be spent in leisurely reading. But I would recommend books that deal with truth. A friend confessed to me that she reads trash, and defined the term as material read but never remembered. The ten books I recommend provide glimpses of enduring truth. They feed the mind and soul […]
by bcadmin | May 5, 2021 | Art, Beauty, Books and Art, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Prayer | 0 |
Prayer and Plastic Art “Plastic arts,” in its most general definition, refers to the visual arts whose products, once formed, remain still. Music and dance and culinary art appear and vanish, ebbing away while we enjoy them. But painting and drawing, sculpture and architecture, stay where they are. They sit and wait, perpetually available. Of […]
by bcadmin | Apr 9, 2021 | A Symbol of Rediscovered Faith, architecture, Art, Best of Week, Books and Art, Featured, News, Sagrada Familia | 0 |
In 1910, he participated in the “Social Catholic Week” organized by clergymen and the entrepreneur Eusebi Güell i Bacigalupi (1846-1918), Gaudí’s client and patron, in the workers’ settlement Colonia Güell. Güell and Gaudí’s lifelong friendship went far beyond business relations and was founded in deep Catholic religiosity. In 1886, Gaudí began construction of the Palau […]
by bcadmin | Apr 2, 2021 | A Symbol of Rediscovered Faith, Books and Art, Featured, News, Sagrada Familia, St. Joseph | 0 |
On June 7, 1926, Gaudí was hit by a streetcar on his way from his morning mass at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in the middle of the Barri Gòtic to the construction site of the Sagrada Família, where he had been sleeping. Because of his worn clothes, the seriously injured man was mistaken […]
by bcadmin | Mar 29, 2021 | Books and Art, Faustina Kowalska, Featured, News, Saints, Sophia Excerpts, St. Faustina, Susan Tassone | 0 |
We don’t have to ask for suffering. It comes our way! St. Faustina knew and experienced this. She suffered physically from a terminal illness (Tuberculosis), she suffered spiritually and mentally, as many do. She went through a dark night of the soul.
by bcadmin | Mar 19, 2021 | A Symbol of Rediscovered Faith, architecture, Art, Books and Art, Culture, Featured, News, Sagrada Familia | 0 |
Among the precious treasures of the Church that bring about the salvation of souls, which we must recover in order to save our families and rebuild a Christian society, is the Sacrament of Matrimony. Is it not darkened today above all because we rarely proclaim this forgotten gem among the seven sacraments, no longer let […]
by bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Books and Art, Featured, News | 0 |
Among the precious treasures of the Church that bring about the salvation of souls, which we must recover if we are to save our families and rebuild a Christian society, is the Sacrament of Matrimony. Is it not darkened today above all because we rarely proclaim this forgotten gem among the seven sacraments, no longer […]
by bcadmin | Mar 10, 2021 | Art, Artists, Beauty, Books and Art, Featured, John Paul II, News | 0 |
I learned that most adults don’t consider themselves artists, however. And I came to adopt the societal mindset that artists were quirky, starving, and unconventional. About a year ago, I attended a performing arts demonstration about creativity, and I remembered that God is Creator, and that we, as His Image, are co-creators. In a way, […]
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