Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground

The Parable of the Russian Bells

The Mystery of the Trinity, Person & Eucharist

The Harrowing of Hell and The Veracity of Hope

 

The Angelus Bell

Reflections on human origins vis a vis nuptiality - from homo sapiens to human culture via mimesis.

Christian Virtues Gone Mad

An expanded version of Gil Bailie’s presentation at the 2009 Colloquium on Violence and Religion conference at St. Mary’s University, London. 
Unlike the generation that sacrificed so much to preserve our civilization, many of us have lately come to believe that we can discharge our present responsibilities simply by relaxing the religious, moral, social and cultural traditions that have defined our culture, relieving our children of the burden of having exemplary models to emulate and ennobling standards to which to aspire, and taking special care not to inconvenience newcomers to our societies with any serious need to familiarize themselves with these traditions. This minimalist approach to cultural responsibility is a striking example of what G. K. Chesterton called Christian virtue gone mad. Contrary to its purported intent, it has resulted in a generation or two of people who feel entitled to the blessings Western Civilization is still able to bestow but who no longer identify with that civilization in any really serious way, many of whom, in fact, have been inculcated with a contempt for it.

Theology of the Body Part 3

This is a three part presentation made in 2003 at Casper, Wyoming introducing the participants to Pope St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

Theology of the Body Part 2

This is a three part presentation made in 2003 at Casper, Wyoming introducing the participants to Pope St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

Theology of the Body Part 1

This is a three part presentation made in 2003 at Casper, Wyoming introducing the participants to Pope St. John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

Letter to the Romans Part 8

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.

Letter to the Romans Part 7

St. Paul's writings comprise a large part of the New Testament. The Letter to the Romans is considered the most central and comprehensive of all of his writing. He was the most dynamic and peripatetic of all of the first interpreters of the Christian message. Whereas the Gospel writers were careful to relate theological meanings to the detailed events of the life of Jesus and his sayings, Paul took the opposite approach. He extracted the theological meaning of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus and elaborated it into the foundational understanding of the Christian experience not only of the first century A.D. but for every Christian since then.