Jan Hus: A Martyr for Truth Before His Time
On Jan Hus Day, the Czech Republic remembers a priest burned for heresy. But was Jan Hus truly a heretic, or did he simply uncover the wound too early?
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The Blood That Never Failed: A Sacred Heart Testimony
There are some images of Jesus that do not merely ask to be looked at, hey ask to be endured. The image seen above, titled Sic Deus Dilexit Mundum, is one of them. Christ looks out at us with the crown of thorns pressed into His brow, His robe blood-red and his face bearing that strange mixture … Read more
The Safest Place I Knew-Even At The Edge of Death
There are moments in life that cannot be explained neatly. They can only be remembered with reverence. For me, one of those moments happened in November of 2020, during the worst part of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was on a ventilator, in a coma, fighting COVID and bilateral pneumonia. I was not aware of … Read more
Lead Me by the Hand: On The Road to Emmaus
The road to Emmaus is not a triumphant road. It is a retreat. In Luke 24:13–35, two disciples are not heading toward mission, or clarity, or even hope. They are walking away—from Jerusalem, from the Cross, from everything they thought they understood. They had believed. And now they are disoriented. “We had hoped…” That line … Read more
Christ Has a Garden: Eden, Mary Magdalene, and the Song That Calls Us by Name
There are songs that entertain, and there are songs that uncover something older than memory—something planted deep in the soil of the human heart. Christ Has a Garden by the Hillbilly Thomists belongs to the latter kind. It feels less like a composition and more like a recovery, like stumbling upon a path that was … Read more
Holy Saturday and the Abasement of Hell
There is a silence that follows Good Friday—a silence not of peace, but of waiting. The work of Salvation is finished, and yet something remains undone. Christ has died, but the world has not yet seen what His death will accomplish. It is into this silence that Sister Mary Ada’s poem “Limbo” speaks with remarkable … Read more
The Wounded Healer and the Mystery of the Cross
Good Friday has a way of stripping away our illusions. It confronts us not with sentiment, but with reality: suffering, sin, mortality, and the terrible cost of redemption. Few modern poets enter that reality with the theological depth and severity of T. S. Eliot. In East Coker IV, the fourth movement of Four Quartets, Eliot … Read more
Honoring Sacred Ground: Prayerful Memorial Day Reflections
And so begins another summer, barbecues, parades, vacations, and relaxation. Yet before the festivities begin, we pause to remember. Taking time to once again stroll over the sacred ground where our loved ones, our heroes, and countless other unknowns lie sleeping, waiting in perpetual hope. We bring flowers, stones, and flags, recounting timeless stories and … Read more
Quelling the Restless Heart
Pope Leo XIV and the Augustinian “Restless Heart” Through the ,now, more two millennia of Roman pontiffs, there are names that continue to resound through the centuries, think St. Peter, St. Gregory the Great, and St. John Paul the Great, and names that have silently fallen into oblivion, Agapetus II, for example doesn’t often surface … Read more
Give Me Your Fire, I’ll Do Your Work
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. It is much harder to believe than not to believe.” ~ Flannery O’Connor The great fifty days of Easter are now over. It is now time for us, as Christians, to step … Read more
