People used to sing together–on pilgrimage, on Crusade, on the way to battle. It kept up the marchers’ morale for the cause, shared beauty of melody and lyric, handed down and passed on noble ideas. The songs were really love songs: proclaiming love for Christ, and His mother, the saints, the Church, and the good…
Memorize the Faith! (And Most Anything Else) Using the Methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters by Kevin Vost, Psy. D. In a conversation yesterday with a student about his difficulty in memorizing Scripture verses, I was reminded of this book sitting on my shelves at home. Having majored in psychology in college, I have…
Look where I was two weekends ago! Ahhhh…Classical music is just about my favorite type of music to play on the stereo each day–but it’s even better to experience it in a packed symphony hall (and the place was packed, too, after fifteen more minutes). If you have ever been to a philharmonic or classical…
For the last few nights I have stayed up much too late. Thankfully I have just now finished Miss Mackenzie by Anthony Trollope, first published in London in 1865. (This is a great book for you if you would like a mix of Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Charles Dickens’ wryly humorous style of social satire.) It was better…
Dear Reader, When was the last time you wrote a letter, by hand, to someone you love? A friend of mine has started almost-dating a man she goes to church with. As both of them are very busy, he finishing up his master’s degree and she working several part-time jobs, finding time to be together…
(Or, Better Living through Time Travel!) The more I learn about the past, the more I think that the way we do things nowadays is pretty much garbage, maybe fully 90% of the time. People were better, happier, and more religious 100+ years ago: we should copy what they did back then, and then we will…
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