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Behold the maidservant of the Lord! “My soul magnifies the Lord,     and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowly state of his servant.    Surely from now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me,    and holy is his name” (Luke 1:46-49). The…

A Seinfeld Story This is not the ideal format for scripts, but I was sick last week, I’m still sick but I was sick, then, too. I found this old tweet I wrote during COVID, and tinkered with it. I had just learned about No Contact and immediately wrote this with George Costanza in mind.…

Re-Becoming the Universal Church “Stories can tell what history cannot describe; how the mother of God became Our Lady is such a tale. When she became the prototype of the ‘image of woman’ – never a goddess, no longer an icon, not yet the sentimental pinup of baroque art – the other figures peopling the…

Discrimination on the Path We have for our desire God and God alone therefore we are “convinced more than ever of the absolute impossibility of being half a Christian. And [we] determined, through his grace (the absolute necessity of which I was deeply sensible of) to be all-devoted to God, to give him all my…

Discerning the Way “I am a rose of Sharon, A lily of the valleys.  As a lily among the brambles,             So is my love among the maidens” (Song of Songs 2:1-2).  Discrimination is what keeps us walking the royal road, keeping us free of delusion; this is the Buddhist right view on the eightfold…

Notes from stillness “This it is to be a perfect man, to be sanctified throughout; even ‘to have a heart so all-flaming with the love of God as continually to offer up every thought, word, and work, as a spiritual sacrifice, acceptable to God through Christ.’ In every thought of our hearts, in every word…

Notes from a closed road “O the depth of the riches of the condescension and love of God, who hath not only pardoned us and delivered us from death, but given us righteousness and sanctification; not given them us only, but as Scripture says, himself made his Son such to us, by taking our nature…

And putting away childish things “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ , the Son of God, begotten of the Father [the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God], Light of Light, very God of very…

Walking to the Precipice “Since the Son hath made me free, Let me taste my liberty; Thee behold with open face, Triumph in thy saving grace, Thy great will delight to prove, Glory in thy perfect love. Abba, Father, hear thy child, Late in Jesus reconciled; Hear, and all the graces shower, All the joy,…