An Irish Oasis of Adoration
Silverstream Priory, consisting of traditional Benedictines with a special charism of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, helps point us to the importance of a Eucharistic Revival.
An Audience for All Seasons: The Life of Sister Bernadette of the Cross
The life of Sister Bernadette of the Cross is a story worth reading and sharing with anyone who has suffered in today’s crushing culture.
Who is the Best Mother in Literature?
During the shutdown last spring, one of the unexpected blessings of quarantine was reconnecting with college friends on Zoom. We all had nowhere to be, so a group of us would meet about once a week to catch up. All of us were English or Classics graduates, so literature naturally came up as a topic … Read more
The Spoon Elevation in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
The titular character of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, wrongfully convicted as a spy and sentenced to ten years in a 1950’s Soviet forced-labor camp, trudges through his daily life with a strange companion: “[Ivan Denisovich] Shukhov pulled his spoon out of his boot. His little baby. It had been … Read more
Being a “Gardiner” in the Vineyard: On Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice: the book that tends to make ladies giggle with glee and gentlemen roll their eyes in annoyance. But beyond the tea-time social drama and the range of reaction from the sexes, there lies in this novel a vision of humanity and society. The more I see of the world, the more am … Read more