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02/01/2026

Saint Brigid of Kildare (c. 451–525) was a foundational Irish Christian abbess, monastic founder, and one of Ireland's three primary patron saints. She established the influential Kildare monastery (Cill Dara) and a, school of art, forming a major center of faith and learning. Known for her compassion for the poor and pioneering role in Irish Christianity, her feast day is February 1.

01/27/2026

Pub Theology is at Oscar’s Pub and Grill on 17th and Pierce again Wednesday night at 6:30. Come early if you will partake in food. This week we’re discussing the vice of gluttony and the virtue of abstinence (see CH 7 of Ask of Old Paths by Grace Hamman).

01/26/2026

"Refrain from debating, which cannot comprehend Him, and acquire silence, which befits Him. Enable me, my Lord, to use both of these discerningly: May I not debate presumptiuously; may I not be silent impudently. May I learn beneficial speech; may I acquire discerning silence." [St. Ephrem the Syrian]

10/28/2025

“They who live in prosperity and have no experience of adversity know nothing of the state of their souls. In the first place, tribulation opens the eyes which prosperity had kept shut. St. Paul remained blind after Jesus Christ appeared to him and during his blindness he perceived the errors in which he lived. During his imprisonment in Babylon, King Manasseh had recourse to God, was convinced of the malice of his sins, and did penance for them. And after that he was in distress. He prayed to the Lord his God and did penance exceedingly before the God of his fathers. The Prodigal, when he found himself under the necessity of feeding swine and afflicted with hunger. exclaimed: "I will arise and go to my father.” [St Alphonsus Liguori]

06/15/2025

O Triune God, your three fold name was placed upon us when we were baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. And this day we worship the Trinity in person and the Unity in substance of Majesty coequal. Grant us the grace to continue in this faith until we join the hosts of heaven that cry, Holy, holy, holy before you heavenly throne, you who live and rule, one God, through all eternity. Amen. [Holy Trinity Sunday]

06/10/2025

“Having climbed all these steps of humility (the 12 steps just mentioned), therefore, the monk will presently come to that perfect love of God which casts out fear. And all those precepts which formerly he had not observed without fear, he will now begin to keep by reason of that love, without any effort, as though naturally and by habit. No longer will his motive be the fear of hell, but rather the love of Christ, good habit and delight in the virtues which the Lord will deign to show forth by the Holy Spirit in His servant now cleansed from vice and sin.”
+ St Benedict, conclusion to Rule 7 on Humility

06/06/2025

Today, the 5th. June 2025, American Old Testament theologian Walter Brueggemann (1933-2025) died.

The message hit us at the end of the preparations of the Czech edition of his book Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now:

“The first commandment states that the God of exodus is not like any of the gods the slaves have ever known. This God must not be identified or compared to the insatiable gods of imperial productivity. This God later appears as a God of mercy, unfailing love and faithfulness, taking on a covenant commitment of mutual devotion (see Exodus 34:6–7). At the root of that God's devotion to the relationship (covenant) instead of commodities (bricks) stands the ability and will of this God to rest. God's Sabbath rest is the recognition that God and God's people in the world are not commodities to be exploited for the sake of endless production, nor mere "manpower" in the service of a controlled economy. They are separate entities that are part of an economy based on relationships between fellow humans. All of this is indicated in the fact of God's rest.

The Sabbath commandment in Exodus 20:11, referencing Genesis 2:1-4, reminds us that God rested on the seventh day of creation. From God's rest on the seventh day of creation flows clearly, 1. that the Lord is not a workaholic, part 2. that they don't suffer from anxiety whether the creation works correctly, and 3. that the well-being of creation does not depend on endless work. This act of God's rest, therefore, characterizes both the Creator himself and all creation, including beings made in the image of God who rests. Creation is to be accepted and experienced without anxiety as the basic setting. It is God's rest that questions and dissolves the endless restlessness approved by other gods and practiced by their followers. This seventh-day rest is recalled again in the commandment from Exodus 31:12–17, according to which God "rested and breathed on the seventh day." The God of Israel (and creation) is not an immovable or unchanging object, but is described here as someone who can be tired and who restores the wholeness of his self (nefesh). “

Requiescat in pace

04/17/2025

“Think not all is well within when all is well without,
or that thy being pleased is a sign that God is pleased;
but suspect every thing that is prosperous,
unless it promotes piety, and charity, and humility.”
— Jeremy Taylor, Via Pacis

04/09/2025

“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.” [John Chrysostom]

11/20/2023

St Edmund was born in 841 in East Anglia, England. His father is thought to have been the brother-in-law of King Æthelstan of Kent. At the age of 14yrs, St Edmund was elected King of East Anglia. In 869 and following the Danish invasion of East Anglia, St Edmund was captured at Hone in Suffolk, tortured and beheaded. St Edmund’s body was buried near to where he was killed but later transferred to modern-day Bury St Edmunds, a town named in his memory.
St Edmund’s Feast Day is the 20th November. He is the Patron Saint of the Diocese of East Anglia, Suffolk, Douai Abbey, Toulouse, Kings, pandemics and torture victims.

09/22/2023

“We can keep guard over the whole world by keeping guard over the atmosphere of heaven within us, for if we lose the Kingdom of Heaven, we will save neither ourselves nor others. He who has the Kingdom of God in himself will imperceptibly pass it on to others. People will be attracted by the peace and warmth in us; they will want to be near us, and the atmosphere of heaven will gradually pass on to them. It is not even necessary to speak to people about this. The atmosphere of heaven will radiate from us even when we keep silence or talk about ordinary things. It will radiate from us even though we may not be aware of it.” [Elder Thaddeus]

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