“One of the Pharisees invited him to a meal; so he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at table. And there was then a sinful woman in the city, who, hearing that he was at table in…
“You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.” — St. Augustine of Hippo These words of the great saint call to mind the very word of God, as revealed to us through…
If there was one thing I was sure to botch earlier in my spiritual journey, it was the manner in which I gave something up for Lent. I would always give up something I really loved, such as cheese —…
The Sermons of St. Alphonse’s Liguori, For All the Sundays of the Year, by St. Alsphonsus Liguori (1696-1787), Bishop of St. Agatha, Founder of the Redemptorist Order, and Doctor of the Church, This book, if you are a Christian, will literally…
The 1937 novel Descent into Hell, by Charles Williams, has a magnificent title, but was torture to read. I would describe the writer’s narrative style as relentlessly choppy: it is loaded with long, complex sentences riddled with abrupt and awkwardly placed…