The cursing psalms are there for a reason. Omitting them from the Psalter, as the modern Roman Psalter does is detrimental to the psychology and spiritual well-being of the people in the Church.
Why AA Works! The Value of Non-Sacramental Confession and House Groups, Part 2: AA and the Methodists
Sacred Art Institute, Enders Island, CT, Announces 2020 Program
The Sacred Art Institute offers evening, afternoon, and week-long residency workshops in Iconography, Illumination, Calligraphy, Stained Glass, and Sacred Music among others. All Sacred Art Workshops feature highly skilled instructors
Why AA Works! The Value of Daily Non-Sacramental Confession and House Groups, Part 1 Avoiding Scrupulosity
The Vision for You process leads us to an accurate and deep confession that brings joy. We cannot confess too many sins if what we say is accurate and true. Scrupulosity is anxiety caused by a lack of trust in God’s infinite mercy which leads to repetition and needless over-elaboration of detail in the description of any one sin.
Hale and Hearty - Health and Beauty in the Human Person, Part 1
Painting the Nude: The Theology of the Body and Representation of Man in Christian Art
In this book, Clayton provides us with a synthesis that places all within the context of the greater tradition of Catholic thinking on these topics and shows how, far from being a radical departure from it, the Theology of the Body is reinforcing a traditionally Christian and conservative approach to the nude in art. - Deacon Keith Fournier
This is Spiritual Warfare - But Take Heart, the War is Won!
I am delighted that Sophia Institute Press is going to use my painting of St Michael for the cover of an upcoming book, Spiritual Warfare and the Discernment of Spirits, which will be published next month. Charlie McKinney of Sophia Institute Press told me that he chose it because he likes the sense of effortlessness ease with which St Michael deals with evil personified, the Devil.
Biblical Typology for Christmas in a Liturgical Hymn: Words, Music and Art
Dr John Pepino to Teach Online Course for the Institute of Catholic Culture
Two Schemas for Liturgical Art in the 15th Century: Can You Identify These Saints?
Book recommendation: Ben Shapiro's Right Side of History
This book brilliantly introduces us to the story of who we are in the West and why it is so good to be alive today. Shapiro explains how Greek philosophy and the Jewish and Christian faiths have been the forming influences of who we are. If we want to preserve and nurture a good society, it should be part of the general education of every young person in America.
New Masters Degree: The Theology of the Body and the New Evangelization
Christ Writ Large
Men's Monastic Experience Weekend
A Coptic Orthodox Commentator on The Way of Beauty and the 21st Century Catholic Renaissance
As a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church, he is making such observations as an outsider, and while he is critical about some aspects of traditional Catholic culture, he is refreshingly open to the first developments taking place in what he sees as a renewal of sacred arts in the Roman Catholic Church.
