Which gives more grace: personal prayer, or the liturgy?
God gives his grace to us in many ways. While private prayer and popular devotion can be subjectively very powerful, the sacraments are objective guarantees.
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God gives his grace to us in many ways. While private prayer and popular devotion can be subjectively very powerful, the sacraments are objective guarantees.
(1) PROLOGUE. Daniel Dern is champing at the bit to explain today’s Scroll title “(This Is) A Fine Paranormal Romance”. Deets: Via the Kern & Fields song “A Fine Romance”, "...written for the musical film, Swing Time, where it was co-introduced by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers." Here's that video clip: And one of my
COMMENTARY: Hans Scholl like his sister Sophie, had found in St. John Henry Newman and other Christian writers the resources and inspiration to make sense of...
It’s only January 3, but one thing is clear already: 2024 is going to be the Year of Reading Proust. Everyone, but everyone, on social media is boasting of their firm resolution to do so. The great Ryan Ruby has just published this fine piece on our favorite bedridden French mama’s boy. I thought in light of all of this now would be a good time to share with my free subscribers the big “Proust piece” I myself wrote in 2021.
All about giving things up, prioritizing prayer and growing closer to God.