Pilgrim seeking the beatific vision. Wife to Jai, mommy to Thomas, servant of Caesar 🐈⬛. Essays, novels, book reviews. Encourager of the Four Families. Servant of the Secret Fire. 🔥
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Guys, The Promised Land is really good! I was skeptical, but it won me over. Read my review today.
I didn't expect ‘The Promised Land’ to be good, and I didn't expect it to be funny. It turned out to be both.
Video recording now up! Come for the great reflections from @amymantravadi.bsky.social, stay to watch me frantically trying to figure out how to end the livestream when my phone refused to display the little "x" in the corner. 😊 #booksky
Amy Mantravadi
“Alone with none but Thee, O Lord,
I journey on my way.
What need I fear when you are near
O Lord of night and day?
Safer am I within Thy hand
Than if a host should round me stand.”
Prayer attributed to St. Columba, missionary to the British Isles, whose feast day is today.
Many thanks to Credo for publishing my consideration of how Boethius’ understanding of evil as privation influenced the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien.
The tone of our communication is really about virtue. Out of the overflow of our heart, we speak. Virtue is not elitist, for no one suffers more cruelly at the hands of vice than the lower classes, who often reap the harvest of the sick hearts of the elite.
The completion of one of the most beautiful churches in the world. May God be glorified in this work of architecture that points us to spiritual realities, and in this sacred place where people will come to seek his face.
Today at Sub-Creations, I consider a question raised by the pope’s recent encyclical: is technology morally good, bad, or neutral? And how does J.R.R. Tolkien help us to understand this?
The Lord of the Rings is actually a story about a man who has to abandon his household duties, his family, and the imminent destruction of the world in order to finish his book.
