Inspiring Faith and Creativity & Exploring the Arts through a Spiritual Lens
"A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell Introduction The Rizal history course in the Republic of the Philippines is mandated by our Constitution. Republic…
Here's a lesson in understanding people, one learned from Foreign Service days of long ago: more important than who people are is who they think they are. Years before the fall of the Berlin…
Great antiques are not necessarily defined by great expense or rarity. Nor need they come from afar, or boast a provenance from some prestigious auction house or country manor. Rather, great antiques are simply the…
Great Britain was born on the first of May, 310 years ago. Of course, the ancient kingdoms of England and Scotland had been in existence on the island of Great Britain for nearly a…
I had the pleasure and the joy of traveling to Rome in May and the beginning of June 2013. It is not at all easy to describe the power that such an experience contains for…
Games. Always playing games. Filling up the mind with plotting, and our heart’s surge crested with the thrill. Our little games, so all-important to us in the apex of victory or the crush…
Let us who are blind feel your face, the true Green Man, carved in the wood. But the green that you gave to the springtime, the green that you gave to the turning…
As all of his biographers remind us, Karol Wojtyla came of age at one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century. When he was 19 years old and just commencing his university career, the…
Have you had anyone wish you a “Happy Lent?” It seems odd, because Lent is not commonly viewed as a happy time. It is that liturgical season during which we Catholics fast, abstain…
Lent is the Christian season of penitence, traditionally practiced through the triple disciplines of fasting, prayer, and almsgiving. It marks the period when Christ spent 40 days in the desert to prepare for his earthly…
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