I’ve let both of my blogs slip, and it’s a shame. You’re probably wondering, legitimately, “Why are you writing another post NOW?” The short answer is that this morning something happen...
https://femalechestertonian.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/priest-prophet-king-and-linebacker/
I have been wanting, for a while, to sit down and put up links here to my top four or five Chesterton chapters / essays. These are the chapters that I feel most demonstrate Chesterton’s styl...
https://femalechestertonian.wordpress.com/2014/12/27/my-top-4-chesterton-chapters-essays/
If you know me at all, you know I am introverted. (By Myers-Briggs standards, I’m an INFJ). Now, this is a post about the universal nature of the Church, not any plug for introversion or introv...
https://femalechestertonian.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/on-being-catholic-and-an-introvert/
This is post is about how big Christianity is, the danger of making it smaller than it should be, and how much our fellow Christians who have different strengths and emphasize different virtues a...
In true Chestertonian fashion, this post is all about fairy tales. It is about childhood and children and how right Christ was to say in last Sunday’s Gospel: “I give praise to you, Father, L...
Today is the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. They each have their own separate feast days: The Chair of St. Peter, the Conversion of St. Paul. But I love this joint feast SO MUCH. It makes sense ...
I guess I should start by saying, Happy Feast of Corpus Christi, everyone! I have always, always loved the Triple Whammy that is Pentecost, followed by Trinity Sunday, followed by Corpus Christi....
This Pentecost Sunday, I need to talk about my recent, personal Pentecost experience. This post is going to be long and personal, because this week has been like a conversion experience. Now, tha...
As a student of literature, I have always loved the power of repetition. I guess you could say I have always been super-sensitive to it as a literary device. It does so much more than emphasize�...
One of my favorite quotes (from one of my favorite saints) comes courtesy of Saint Augustine, who writes in his Confessions, “You have made us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless until t...