“Quasimodo’s cathedral was enough for him. It was peopled with marble figures of kings, saints and bishops who at least did not laugh in his face and looked at him with only tranquillity and benevolence. The other statues, those of monsters and demons, had no hatred for him – he resembled them too closely for that. It was rather the rest of mankind that they jeered at. The saints were his friends and blessed him; the monsters were his friends and kept watch over him. He would sometimes spend whole hours crouched before one of the statues in solitary conversation with it. If anyone came upon him then he would run away like a lover surprised during a serenade.” 214372

Simply the best thing I’ve ever read on conscience can be found here: http://www.ewtn.com/library/curia/ratzcons.htm

The kickoff for our Rise Night for the Spring 2018 semester. Michael Duryea, director of liturgy at Sacred Heart in Emporia, KS, was kind enough to deliver our opening testimony.

A Lenten Kickoff.

Thanks to Our Sunday Visitor for making Dale Ahlquist’s visit possible!

You can buy Dale’s (and Chesterton’s) recommended books here: https://www.chesterton.org/product-category/books/

 

I’d like to coin a new acronym: VIPYNHO (pronounced “VIP – in – how”). As in, Very Important Person You Never Heard Of.

Excerpts from “Who is a Christian?” by Hans Urs von Balthasar

The final Rise Night of the semester (and wrap up to our theme of “Love in the Ruins” presents some testimony around what it means to love our families well–and discover the sweetness hidden in them.