Tag: michael pakaluk

We Need Centers of Human Fructification

The only time Our Lord came upon something merely flourishing, he cursed it: “In the morning, as he was returning to the city, he was hungry. And seeing a fig tree by the wayside he went to it, and found nothing on it but leaves only. And he…

‘The Sanctifying Power of this Night’

“And it came to pass – when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in Moses’ hand, when he came down from the mount – that Moses knew not that the skin of his face sent forth beams while He talked with him.”…

The Lives of Christian Moms

When I taught CCD, I used to tell my kids, ‘If everybody else is doing it, it’s probably wrong.’  The Christian life is difficult. The truth is difficult.”  So said Kelley (as we may call her) when I interviewed her, in January 1999, a few…