This homily by St. John Chrysostom shows that quiet of Holy Saturday conceals the hidden, salvific action of Christ, already at work in liberating souls from captivity.Continue readingHoly Saturday, the Still Center of All Creation
Category: Learning God
Posts about the spiritual life and books that help us grow closer to God.
Put on your spiritual armor with the Lorica prayer — St. Patrick’s Breastplate.Continue readingSpiritual Armor: St. Patrick’s Breastplate
A free ebook by Connie Rossini sums up five key insights into the Christian life.Continue readingGreat Free Ebook on Prayer and Holiness
Giambattista Vico’s rather eccentric theory of Graeco-Roman history helped me see that some truths simply can’t be expressed adequately in “plain words.” For this, we need poetry, which provides concrete analogies for ineffable realitiesContinue readingPoetic Truth according to Vico
A recent book by John Bergsma, Bible Basics for Catholics: A New Picture of Salvation History, helps Catholics regain a sense of the unity of Scripture and points the way to grasping the real meaning of the Bible.Continue readingLearning to See the Bible Whole