On the Journey to the divine
Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most Holy. Blessed be her Holy and Immaculate Conception. Blessed be her Glorious Assumption. Blessed be the Name of Mary, Virgin and Mother.Divine Praises September 12th is recognized in the Church as the feast of the Holy Name of Mary. The feast day was started as a [...]
Friends, I've been hiding. Hiding from myself. Hiding from all of you. But mostly I've been hiding from God. I haven't written a blog post in months. I haven't written in my journal in what feels like years. I haven't written a poem or a song. Not one bit of reflection or prayer has flown [...]
As a Christians, we are exhorted to keep our eyes and bodies free from darkness so we can be effective missionaries in the world. Christ teaches us that "[t]he eye is the lamp of the body. You draw light into your body through your eyes, and light shines out to the world through your eyes.So [...]
When I was a teacher I had a student ask me a question about the saints. She asked, "Will I get to meet and be friends with the saints in heaven?" to which I emphatically replied "yes!" It shocked me that she didn't realize that the saints want to be our friends and help us. [...]
Dostoevsky's Notes from the Underground focuses on the ramblings of the "underground man" as a stand-in for Russian alienation at the turn of the century. The most poignant aspect of his rambling is underground man's depression and his alienation. He sees himself as both elevated above the rabble of humanity, but also completely at odds with [...]
The 5 Love Languages can be used to better understand our relationship with God. We can use all that we know about ourselves to glorify him.
Litany for Students and Academics
Kierkegaard, a Danish philosopher, theologian, and poet of the 1800s, is largely regaled as the first Existential Philosopher. His works of Either/Or, Sickness Unto Death, and Fear and Trembling are largely considered pivotal philosophical works that shaped the landscape irrecovably afterwards. Nietzche, Satre, and Camus were largely influenced by his work and expand on his [...]
As I write this I am very guiltily trying to ignore the mounds of philosophical texts staring back at me. Kierkegaard's "Sickness Unto Death" beckons, while Augustine's "City of God" is plucking strings in my heart. I'm often not very good at ignoring their requests to be held, read, and consumed. "Read me", they say [...]
Alita: Battle Angel, set to be released this Valentine's day, is a science-fiction movie based on the acclaimed Japanes manga Gunmn (also known as Battle Angel Alita) from Yukito Kishiro and directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Joanna Jewell 