The past, now.
- The last breath
This morning, I was thinking about death. Death in every second, it kept repeating in my mind. I’m sure I heard that somewhere at some point, or read it. But there’s something that happens sometimes, with things I’ve heard or read or thought a million times. The million and first time, something clicks, something I [...]
- Conversion
The night of my baptism I was annoyed by screaming of children, the shuffling of the elect in their pews. Throughout my catechumenate year, I had been nurtured in the community of gracious liturgical snobs at Corpus Christi. On top of my weekly RCIA classes with the pastor, I also learned to read Latin and [...]
- Flannery O’Connor
I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It seems to be a fact that you have [...]
- Thomas Merton
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking [...]
- What happened
People have asked what happened to me ever since it happened, and I’m still not sure what to say. It’s been over two months now, but I didn’t know what to say a week afterwards either. One reason it is difficult to say is because there was not just one definitive event. There was no [...]
- Grace
Learned another name for the secret: grace.
