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by bcadmin | Feb 21, 2022 | Baptism, Dom Anscar Vonier, Eucharist, Jesus Christ, Mercy, News, Romano Guardini, Sacraments, The Dispatch | 0 |
“Do this in memory of me.” –Luke 22:19 For a few years now, I have observed the slow but steady corrosion of my spelling ability. With the rising ubiquity of spell-check and especially auto-correct features […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 6, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mary, News, Romano Guardini, rosary, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
There are two possibilities of greatness. One is to be great oneself: a creator, a hero, a herald, a man of special destiny. The other is to love such a great person; and this possibility seems of equal value. In order to comprehend the life of someone else, one’s own heart should measure up to […]
by bcadmin | Jul 31, 2021 | Eucharist, Incarnation, Jesus Christ, manna, News, Romano Guardini, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for Sunday, August 5, 2018 […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 24, 2021 | *, Best of Week, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mass, News, Romano Guardini, silence, stillness | 0 |
One of the universal complaints we as Catholics hear from others is that the Mass is boring. Perhaps at times we’ve even thought the same thing. People lament that they don’t get anything out of the Mass. Oftentimes we forget that the Mass is not so much about us as it is in giving right […]
by bcadmin | May 3, 2021 | Carol Jackson Robinson, Columns, Ecclesia et Civitas, Features, modernity, News, Romano Guardini, technocracy | 0 |
Catholics today are in a difficult position. They have come to believe that active involvement in social and political life is a basic part of living the Faith. But the general conditions leading to that […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2021 | 2021, Benvenuto di Giovanni, Columns, Easter Sunday, Guardini's "The Lord", News, Resurrection of Jesus Christ, Romano Guardini, The Catholic Thing, The Foundation of the True World | 0 |
Romano Guardini: We must see what Christ’s whole existence demands: faith. He came to free us from the spell which the world has cast over us.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 12, 2021 | Benedict XVI, Jesus Christ, John's Gospel, News, Nicodemus, Pharisees, Romano Guardini, The Dispatch | 0 |
On the Readings for March 11, 2018, the Fourth Sunday of Lent […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2021 | D.W. Winnicott, Eastern Catholicism, Fr. Alexander Schmemann, Freud, Lent, News, Romano Guardini, The Dispatch | 0 |
D.W. Winnicott (1896-1971) differed from most clinicians of his generation by not rejecting his Christian upbringing. Unlike Freud’s famous (and jejune) dismissal of religion, Winnicott realized that images and notions of God come naturally to […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 20, 2021 | Best of Week, conversion, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Jesus Christ, News, Prayer, Romano Guardini, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
It is not our purpose here to construct a connected discourse on the being of Christ. With love, reverence, open eyes, and sentient hearts, we are trying to penetrate to the image of His figure in life; to look at a number of times over, first from one viewpoint, then from another, in order to examine […]
by bcadmin | Apr 10, 2020 | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Crucifixion, Good Friday, Jesus Christ, News, Romano Guardini, Salvation, suffering, The Dispatch | 0 |
Editor’s note: This essay was originally published by CWR on April 19, 2019. The problem of suffering is one that has plagued and haunted humanity since the Fall of our first parents. Suffering prompts in […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 16, 2020 | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Books, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Features, George Bernanos, Ignatius Press, J.R.R. Tolkien, News, Nicholas Diat, Romano Guardini, secularism | 0 |
Some years ago, while on retreat with the Passionists, I listened to a Korean priest describe how he came to America. As a young man in Seoul he had money, girlfriends, a cool car, and […]
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