As mentioned above reverence engenders in those who are graced with it a deep awareness of and respect for the God-given dignity they encounter in others. Readers who are not already familiar with it might be interested in learning about Project Hope Alliance in Orange…
Author: Dana Robinson
Beguiling Ambiguity
This phrase was recently part of a liturgical prayer in which grace is requested to foster in us a deepening awareness of the sacred. By themselves, however, the two words standing alone offer a beguiling ambiguity – one having to do with the grammatical anomaly…
Virtue: Its own reward?
It is understandable how the adage ‘virtue is its own reward’ has fallen into desuetude. (Indeed, the word seems to have been supplanted by its ubiquitous but impoverished substitute: ‘value’). For the most part the expression would be irrelevant in today’s zeitgeist where the only…
Believing is Seeing
A tenet that typifies the mindset of today’s zeitgeist is ‘seeing is believing’. Unless something can be physically touched, empirically attested or scientifically affirmed it is not credible. The ‘unseen’, the ‘untouched’ – these cannot be ‘true’. They are ‘unreal’ for they do not pass…
Unitrinoque Domino
Readers may recognize this phrase from O Salutaris Hostia, the eucharistic prayer composed by St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. It translates as immortal Godhead, one in three. Isn’t it astounding how the one word, unitrinoque, enshrines one of the greatest mysteries of our…
Theology of the Body Evangelization Team, Inc. (TOBET)
While the Theology of the Body is often misunderstood as only dealing with sexuality and marriage, St. John Paul’s wisdom is much more fundamental, much more far-reaching, in that it presents the compelling Christian anthropology at the heart of the Gospel message. The Theology of…
Inherent dynamism
Given all that is happening today it is easy to succumb to despair. However, if we shift our view from the limited focus on the roiled present and widen it to the broad expanse of history we will find an inherent dynamism propelling us forward…
What or Who?
Recently I conducted a review of the thousands of distributions the National Catholic Community Foundation has made on behalf of our donors since our inception twenty-five years ago. It comes as no surprise that the majority of the organizations – both domestically and internationally –…
‘Decarnation’
So as not to embarrass him I will not identify Mr. H. other than to state it was he who several decades ago impressed upon me the richly varied significance of the Incarnation. If he reads this column perhaps he will agree that his instruction…
Koinonia Academy
THE VALUE OF A KA EDUCATION One of the most common but unspoken questions I believe parents and benefactors have when they consider enrolling their children in or supporting KA is this: “Is an education at Koinonia Academy better academically than at a top-tier public…