Catholicism
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St. Hildegard
The local classical station has been showcasing female composers, a show I’ve caught several times the past week in late-night drives home. After one particularly moving piece of music, the host returned to say, “That music is nine hundred years old!” Which brought me to learn of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun that… Continue reading
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Lent, Round 2
“This will be my first Lent as a full Catholic,” I proudly declared. “Oh word,” he replied. “What are you giving up?” Despite last year’s “God schedule“, I nearly forgot to plan anything for this coming season. There are a lot of things I’ve been meaning to do (not necessarily “putting off”…), so it was… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6