Laetare Sunday (One of the Two Rose Vestment Days)
Laetare Sunday (derived from the Latin verb laetare meaning "to rejoice") is one of the two days in the year with its own special vestments (Rose colored).
Jan. 13 - Liturgical Note: The Sacramentality of Baptism
Three things to note for the Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord (Jan. 13- EF/ Jan. 11- OF):
The Morality of Buying Local
On this blog, I don't often speak directly to specific moral issues (unless it instantiates a larger point about religion proper), but I can't help but think of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity could be of service in this instance:
A.I. cannot Worship the Living God...
[See between 6:25 and 8:50]. The question of "what to do" after work has been rendered "obsolete" by automation is to do what A.I. could never do--- to give proper worship to the Living God!
Folk Culture v. Pop Culture (and the Role of Consumer Capitalism)
What Mr. Holdsworth points out here is that the individual taste profiling of consumer capitalism has, in effect, metabolized pre-existing folk traditions and perverting them for its own ends. This has ended up contributing to an "anti-culture" that is not held in common [Commonality here with Deneen's thesis in "Why Liberalism Failed"].
Nietzsche's Recognition of Christian Civilization
Nietzsche vs. Atheists - Historian Tom Holland - #nietzsche #atheism #shorts
Imagined Communities: 42 Years Later...
There was once a book that I had to read three times in grad school. And yes, it is one of the few books in grad school that I read more than twice (In truth, most of them I did not even finish because, well, it was painfully dull to get through them.).
Data vs. Knowledge vs. Wisdom
According to a contemporary accounting information systems textbook, straightforwardly titled Accounting Information Systems, a glaring statistic haunts us: "With an incredible 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created every day, 90 percent of the world's data has been created in the last two years alone."*
Curious Insight into the Daily Gospel Reading on the Memorial of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian (16/9/2025)
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke:
March 1, 2024
What is "Lectio Divina" and what does it have to offer us that differs from "Bible Study"?
Hegel once wrote in one of his diaries that “Newspaper reading of the early morning is a kind of realistic morning prayer,” and he went on to speculate that it would supplant Christian morning prayer as a kind of routine piety.
Modern men would become more focused on the affairs of this world, less on the hereafter.
No surprise there.
In a way, there was a time when Hegel's prediction did seem to capture the trajectory of society's utilitarian sense of agenda-mongering and staying "in the know"---- every household had its Sunday newspaper and read it dutifully--- but this conversation of Unherd attests to a far different reality for digital modernity:
The dawn of post-literate society - with Jared Henderson and James Marriott
This sub-blog investigates the correlation between declines in literacy and religion, how both trends are in fact related and sourced in the same causes in a dwindling attention span.
More to come!