Mark Christian

Ordo Amoris: Wisely Extending Love Bauerschmidt and Sweeney on human need.

Timely reflection on the ordering of love…

“The love that brought Christ from heaven to earth raised Stephen from earth to heaven; shown first in the king, it later shone forth in his soldier. Love was Stephen’s weapon by which he gained every battle.” —Fulgentius of Ruspe

I’d like to introduce Shawn Copeland’s work in parish reading group. Would you recommend Enfleshing Freedom or Knowing Christ Crucified?

Meister Eckhart’s Mary (Is You) Meister Eckhart's understanding of Mary, which can be eagerly embraced by Protestants, urges us to join in her yes to God and allow Him to be born in us.

Milliner’s magnificent Marian musings!

Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy! - Alexander Schmemman

For the evening crowd. Been thinking a lot about these bizarre classic stories Hans Urs von Balthasar discusses at length. Why he cares; why we might also care.

“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?” - from Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins

Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET

The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.

The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!

So much for their motto…

Welcome!

In today’s NYT, certain Americans express their delight with the incoming administration’s cabinet nominees. One described them as a “masterpiece… a Picasso.”

Guernica comes to mind…

God shines forth in human longing, and so that longing leads us to God, casting all finite and comprehensible things aside as it does so, for in them it can find no rest; thus it is led ever onward from God who is the beginningless beginning to God who is the endless end. - DB Hart, You Are Gods

Yes! “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal." - TM

- Toni Morrison (1931-2019)

Bread & Circuses One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.

"Trump will end the war in Ukraine by abandoning it to Putin."
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses

Freedom is found under the dark tree that springs up in the center of the night and of silence, the paradise tree, the axis mundi, which is also the cross.

- Thomas Merton, May 1965