"He had seeded bread crumbs everywhere, and finally I had come home." Though I was always a Christian at heart, this is how I describe my own journey into the Church. A little seashell Marian grotto in a patient's home on a house call with my father, colored plates of great Christian art in a book, a grape hyacinth at eye-level in a nearby vacant lot, Texas weather, a classmate making the sign of the Cross over her public school lunch, novels about Catholic life when I was a teen- all these started me on a path with many detours, but a final arrival.
For a wonderful novel about a 13th century priest, a student of Albertus Magnus, who encounters aliens from a stranded spaceship, recommend Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
Another awesome piece. Hutton is excellent. I always found it amusing that the finest biographer of Oliver Cromwell is a historian and practitioner of paganism. His book on Druids is good. He has another pagan book due before he delivers the last volume of the Cromwell biography.
Thought I’d leave you with a wonderful quote from the late Fr. Donald Keefe, s.j. on the Eucharist:
“In sum, our objective reality as human is covenantal, and as historical is Eucharistic; this reality is the single interest and the single subject matter of Catholic theology, because it is the ground of existence in Christ. The Eucharist is the center of objective existence because it is the constituting Event of the historically free world, of the Good Creation. Therefore, the work of theology is not speculation but practice, a dimension of the Eucharistic worship of the Church. . . . There is no other dignity than this, our participation in the One Flesh of the One Sacrifice by which in Christ we have access to the Father.”
“Man and his world have no truth other than the mystery of
the Eucharist, and no meaning or significance which does not find there its source or culmination.”
For a wonderful novel about a 13th century priest, a student of Albertus Magnus, who encounters aliens from a stranded spaceship, recommend Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
"He had seeded bread crumbs everywhere, and finally I had come home." Though I was always a Christian at heart, this is how I describe my own journey into the Church. A little seashell Marian grotto in a patient's home on a house call with my father, colored plates of great Christian art in a book, a grape hyacinth at eye-level in a nearby vacant lot, Texas weather, a classmate making the sign of the Cross over her public school lunch, novels about Catholic life when I was a teen- all these started me on a path with many detours, but a final arrival.
I look forward to the rest of this series.
So beautiful. I loved H.Rider Haggard too.
For a wonderful novel about a 13th century priest, a student of Albertus Magnus, who encounters aliens from a stranded spaceship, recommend Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
Another awesome piece. Hutton is excellent. I always found it amusing that the finest biographer of Oliver Cromwell is a historian and practitioner of paganism. His book on Druids is good. He has another pagan book due before he delivers the last volume of the Cromwell biography.
Thought I’d leave you with a wonderful quote from the late Fr. Donald Keefe, s.j. on the Eucharist:
“In sum, our objective reality as human is covenantal, and as historical is Eucharistic; this reality is the single interest and the single subject matter of Catholic theology, because it is the ground of existence in Christ. The Eucharist is the center of objective existence because it is the constituting Event of the historically free world, of the Good Creation. Therefore, the work of theology is not speculation but practice, a dimension of the Eucharistic worship of the Church. . . . There is no other dignity than this, our participation in the One Flesh of the One Sacrifice by which in Christ we have access to the Father.”
“Man and his world have no truth other than the mystery of
the Eucharist, and no meaning or significance which does not find there its source or culmination.”
Donald J. Keefe, S.J.
Absolutely beautiful
So beautiful. I loved H.Rider Haggard too.
For a wonderful novel about a 13th century priest, a student of Albertus Magnus, who encounters aliens from a stranded spaceship, recommend Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.