Laetare Sunday (One of the Two Rose Vestment Days)
Laetare Sunday (derived from the Latin verb laetare meaning "to rejoice") is one of the two days in the year with its own special vestments (Rose colored).
Jan. 13 - Liturgical Note: The Sacramentality of Baptism
Three things to note for the Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord (Jan. 13- EF/ Jan. 11- OF):
The Morality of Buying Local
On this blog, I don't often speak directly to specific moral issues (unless it instantiates a larger point about religion proper), but I can't help but think of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity could be of service in this instance:
A.I. cannot Worship the Living God...
[See between 6:25 and 8:50]. The question of "what to do" after work has been rendered "obsolete" by automation is to do what A.I. could never do--- to give proper worship to the Living God!
Folk Culture v. Pop Culture (and the Role of Consumer Capitalism)
What Mr. Holdsworth points out here is that the individual taste profiling of consumer capitalism has, in effect, metabolized pre-existing folk traditions and perverting them for its own ends. This has ended up contributing to an "anti-culture" that is not held in common [Commonality here with Deneen's thesis in "Why Liberalism Failed"].
Data vs. Knowledge vs. Wisdom
According to a contemporary accounting information systems textbook, straightforwardly titled Accounting Information Systems, a glaring statistic haunts us: "With an incredible 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being created every day, 90 percent of the world's data has been created in the last two years alone."*
Curious Insight into the Daily Gospel Reading on the Memorial of Sts. Cornelius and Cyprian (16/9/2025)
A reading from the Gospel according to Luke:
March 1, 2024
What is "Lectio Divina" and what does it have to offer us that differs from "Bible Study"?