Contemplation and Action in Earth Month (Quotes Vol. 36)

This past week, all the quotes posted to social media (Facebook, Instagram, X) all spoke of the Christian eco-spirituality for Earth Month, starting with a quote about the Annunciation (celebrated on Monday past) and continuing on to the connection between virtue and social justice with contemplation, as well as the virtues of moderation and contemplative …

As Things Get Busy… (Quotes Vol. 20)

From social media (Facebook, Instagram, and X) this past week: It seems to me that Our Lady’s attitude during the months that intervened between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model for interior souls, for those whom God has chosen to live within, in the depths of the unfathomable abyss. — Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity …

Advent with Mary

It seems to me that the attitude of the Blessed Virgin during the months that passed between the Annunciation and the Nativity is the model of interior souls, of beings that God has chosen to live within, at the bottom of the abyss without bottom. In what peace, in what recollection Mary gave to and …

Angels in the Church

The angel of the Lord declared unto Mary, and she conceived by the Holy Spirit. One of the remarkable things that I picked up in reading Charles Cardinal Journet (I was too stupid to notice this on my own) is that, at each of the Incarnational mysteries – Annunciation, Nativity, Resurrection, Ascension, and even the Temptation in the …