From Dinner to the Mystical Supper
A.L.P.
There’s something quite beautiful about dinner. This past year, there were two memorable dinners for me, that of my parents’ wedding anniversary, and the dinne...
Contributors
Gender Theory: Follow the Logic
William
We're being hit by a new scourge: contemporary gender theory. According to this theory, you do not choose your "biological sex", but you do choose whether or no...
Ascension
EMR
* Featured image: The Ascension, detail from the “Speculum Humanae Salvationis” (15 c.), Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
Today, as advertised, we are cele...
His Wounded Side
EMR
In today's Gospel, the disciples are together again. Jesus is not there, but a lot of them sense His presence. The Risen Christ has been seen more than once sin...
A Frenchman who Showed the Face of God
EMR
He was born in 1836 in Nantes, one of the four pillar-cities of the ancient Duchy of Brittany, to a rich cloth merchant and his wife. Brittany is, to this day, ...
Milwaukee’s Sublime Library
EMR
When you're ten years old, you skitter along, dodging bulky objects, confused by it all. One afternoon, I left the confines of my mother’s overweight Oldsmobile...
Washington Park in Milwaukee
EMR
Smack in the middle of Milwaukee, there is a 124-acre oasis designed by the architect who built Central Park in New York. There is a huge Art Deco bandshell ...
Going Deeper: Low Mass Attendance
O.A.C.
What is the Way? What is the Truth? What is the Life?
What does it look like, smell like, sound like? These are the questions to which the heart seeks a defi...
Adoration
O.A.C.
Our deepest hungers are not for food and drink, not for amusements and recreations, not for property and wardrobes, not for notoriety and gossip. We hunger for ...
Paradise on Lincoln
EMR
It's November and a very long winter is on the way. It's two weeks after payday and the account is dry. The car needs work. Mourning and weeping is all well and...