Mark Christian
@jmarkchr.bsky.social
Adult Formation Director @ Prince of Peace Church in Hoover, AL. Catholic humanist: Merton, Day, Percy, O’Connor. Byzantine exile. Wofford & Duke Divinity alumnus. Looking to the margins for hope. I wonder as I wander…
Timely reflection on the ordering of love…
Ordo Amoris: Wisely Extending Love
Bauerschmidt and Sweeney on human need.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
February 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Timely reflection on the ordering of love…
Reposted by Mark Christian
“The love that brought Christ from heaven to earth raised Stephen from earth to heaven; shown first in the king, it later shone forth in his soldier. Love was Stephen’s weapon by which he gained every battle.” —Fulgentius of Ruspe
December 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
“The love that brought Christ from heaven to earth raised Stephen from earth to heaven; shown first in the king, it later shone forth in his soldier. Love was Stephen’s weapon by which he gained every battle.” —Fulgentius of Ruspe
Milliner’s magnificent Marian musings!
Meister Eckhart’s Mary (Is You)
Meister Eckhart's understanding of Mary, which can be eagerly embraced by Protestants, urges us to join in her yes to God and allow Him to be born in us.
comment.org
December 1, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Milliner’s magnificent Marian musings!
Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy! - Alexander Schmemman
November 28, 2024 at 3:10 PM
Everyone capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation and eternal joy! - Alexander Schmemman
Reposted by Mark Christian
For the evening crowd. Been thinking a lot about these bizarre classic stories Hans Urs von Balthasar discusses at length. Why he cares; why we might also care.
Yay!! My essay is published!!
"For Balthasar, the fool has something important to say to Catholics. About us. About our art."
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
"For Balthasar, the fool has something important to say to Catholics. About us. About our art."
churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/the...
The Fool and Hans Urs von Balthasar
Anne Carpenter on Don Quixote.
churchlifejournal.nd.edu
November 27, 2024 at 1:38 AM
For the evening crowd. Been thinking a lot about these bizarre classic stories Hans Urs von Balthasar discusses at length. Why he cares; why we might also care.
“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?” - from Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 AM
“Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a grove of young pines and the question came to me: has it happened at last?” - from Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins
Reposted by Mark Christian
Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET
The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.
The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!
The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.
The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!
November 21, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Tonight there will be a Blue Supermoon at 9:35 ET
The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.
The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!
The moon will appear about 8% larger than a normal full moon and 15% brighter than a normal full moon.
The next one won't be until January 2037. Keep any eye out tonight!
In today’s NYT, certain Americans express their delight with the incoming administration’s cabinet nominees. One described them as a “masterpiece… a Picasso.”
Guernica comes to mind…
Guernica comes to mind…
November 17, 2024 at 7:52 PM
In today’s NYT, certain Americans express their delight with the incoming administration’s cabinet nominees. One described them as a “masterpiece… a Picasso.”
Guernica comes to mind…
Guernica comes to mind…
God shines forth in human longing, and so that longing leads us to God, casting all finite and comprehensible things aside as it does so, for in them it can find no rest; thus it is led ever onward from God who is the beginningless beginning to God who is the endless end. - DB Hart, You Are Gods
November 16, 2024 at 11:15 PM
God shines forth in human longing, and so that longing leads us to God, casting all finite and comprehensible things aside as it does so, for in them it can find no rest; thus it is led ever onward from God who is the beginningless beginning to God who is the endless end. - DB Hart, You Are Gods
Reposted by Mark Christian
"Trump will end the war in Ukraine by abandoning it to Putin."
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses
Bread & Circuses
One is obliged to hope for wise and prudent governance from the next administration, but that’s not why people voted for Trump.
www.commonwealmagazine.org
November 15, 2024 at 6:25 PM
"Trump will end the war in Ukraine by abandoning it to Putin."
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses
William T. Cavanaugh on what to expect over the next four years:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/bread-circuses
Freedom is found under the dark tree that springs up in the center of the night and of silence, the paradise tree, the axis mundi, which is also the cross.
- Thomas Merton, May 1965
- Thomas Merton, May 1965
November 15, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Freedom is found under the dark tree that springs up in the center of the night and of silence, the paradise tree, the axis mundi, which is also the cross.
- Thomas Merton, May 1965
- Thomas Merton, May 1965