"Acquire the Spirit of Peace, and a thousand souls around you will be saved." - St. Seraphim of Sarov

“To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty," - Napoleon Bonaparte

Happy Feast of the Transfiguration! Medieval Manuscripts Arundel MS 157 f. 7v, a 13th century Psalter thought to be from around Oxford.

Intellectual history is not the history of thought but of men thinking. This "history of men thinking" immediately suggests context: who is doing the thinking, what are they thinking about, and why? And this "thinking" is always being done in conversation with predecessors and

Paul comes not to abolish the law of the Gentiles, but to fulfill it.

Man is called to participate in the sanctification of creation. Just as when Adam named creation according to its nature, the same occurs with its transfiguration. This means that man's first act is a receptive one, to sit, observe, listen, and love creation with understanding.

The art of Albrecht De Vriendt

Expanding on Kingsnorth’s “people, place, and prayer” with “sacrament, saints, and story.”

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