I am Patrick: Sinner, Uncultivated, and Despised
Saint Patrick blamed himself.
Necks of Iron, Foreheads of Bronze
“I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.” —Isaiah 48:4
Recognizing the Anonymous Righteous Among Us
According to Hasidic Jewish tradition, there are thirty-six Tzadikim Nistarim, or “anonymous righteous ones,” in the world at any given time.
The Storm, the Whirlwind, and the Earthquake
“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” —Frederick Douglass
Finally seeing the goodness of the Lord
Every first-born male belongs to God, according to Exodus 13, and any family that wished to keep its first-born son instead of offering him up for religious service had to redeem him with a sacrifice in the Temple on the fortieth day after his birth.
Explaining What We Believe
The priest, whose classmates had called him “the dumb ox” because of his huge stature and quiet demeanor, was Thomas Aquinas.
The Urgency of Today’s Holy Innocents
We read in the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew that when Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Herod Antipas, the Tetrarch of Galilee (erroneously referred to in the gospels as “King Herod”), fearing for his throne, ordered the deaths all the male children in the Bethlehem area under the age of two.
More than a doubter
According to South Indian Christian tradition, Saint Thomas the Apostle set sail for the Malabar Coast (present-day Kerala) in 52 CE.
I’m just glad he’s not gay.
And all day I have listened to partisan commentators insist that their own hateful and inflammatory rhetoric against the LGBTQIA+ community cannot be blamed for this incident, because the shooter is “one of their own.” Hypocrites! Viper’s brood!
She’s no “cut them a check” philanthropist
The Spirit of defiance of the social order continued amongst a number of wealthy, and often noble, women of the Middle Ages.
