In honor of the Feast of the blessed Theotokos, post some of your favorite depictions of the BVM. Here are two of mine.

While I'm not done with the Grundtvig selections yet, he has struck me as a very interesting thinker. His engagement with and dislike of Kierkegaard is fascinating.

This wonderful young woman was the flower girl in my wedding twenty years ago. She’s now been diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Please donate if you can! (Link in the next tweet)

Today, the Church remembers the witness of St. Johann Gerhard.

Today, the Church remembers the witness of St. Helen.

“[The Apostles], by the will of God, handed down to us [the plan of salvation] in the Scriptures, to be the ground and pillar of our faith.” - St. Irenaeus, Against Heresies (3.1.1)

Today, the Church remembers the witness of St. Bernard of Clairvaux.

Kinda funny that the ancient Canaanites wrote a series of letters ("Amarna Letters") to the Pharaohs in Egypt during the time of Israel's conquest of Canaan begging them to send military aid because they were getting slowly conquered one by one by people from the south.

Today, the Church celebrates the blessed Feast of St. Bartholomew.

Today, the Church remembers the witness of St. Louis IX.