Note from the Assistant Managing Editor:
If I could make one recommendation this week, it would be to spend some time with "God & Bertie Wooster."
"Suppose that laughter offers blessed escape for a while from the terrible mattering that possesses modern times. Suppose that Christendom — the deep unity of Western culture through the years — survives best not when it is trying to respond to the relentless thud with which secular history marches, but when it dances a little. And suppose that God's grace doesn't dwell just in the tears we shed at the tragedy of the world, but also in the play of comedy. Wodehouse titled one of his best novels Joy in the Morning, after a passage in Psalm 30 that Jeeves quotes to Bertie Wooster: 'Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.' And it's true. Joy does come in the morning, and laughter from reading P. G. Wodehouse. That's a small grace, but a real one."
If you've been despairing over the fate of the world, it will give you hope. And if you've been going through a difficult time personally, I highly recommend Something Fresh. - Meaghen Gonzalez |
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"Joy is the flag that flies over the castle of our hearts, announcing that the king is in residence today." - William Knight
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New Resources
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God & Bertie Wooster - Joseph Bottum - First Things
In those dark days of the twentieth century, in the middle of the apparent collapse of it all, there was at least one man who had the courage, the intelligence, and the sheer persevering goofiness simply to ignore the whole mess.
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Introduction - Peter Kreeft - from Symbol or Substance?
A dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Billy Graham.
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The Good Censor - Anthony Esolen - Magnificat
The doctor came into the hospital room, where a man not yet in his old age was getting dressed to go home. The doctor was a little nervous.
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Some Thoughts For Late Summer - Archdiocese of Philadelphia
In his weekly column, Archbishop Chaput recommends two new books that are too worthy to ignore and talks about the reality of the devil.
Early attachment is vital to happiness - Mercatornet
All the Faith and Family Findings of the last few months drive home the most basic fact about human nature: we are made to belong, and cannot belong just to ourselves.
Some Human Beings Carry Remnants of Other Humans in Their Bodies - Church Life Journal
It would be one thing to have the cells from another person in your body and for them to do nothing. But it is another thing entirely that these cells become integrated into maternal tissue and are active and working in ways that we are just beginning to understand.
Sex in the Garden - CWR
Contrary to popular opinion, Saint Augustine does not denigrate sex.
When talking about morality, start with natural law - NC Register
Just as the nature of a violin dictates what you should and should not do to it if you want it to function well, so the nature of a human person reveals how we ought to conduct ourselves so that we can thrive.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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