In Chapter 34 of the Way of Perfection, St. Teresa is advising the sisters on the the value of recollection, or prayerful gathering together of all the senses and the awareness of the presence of Christ, immediately after receiving Communion. It is then, after all, that “in the most Blessed Sacrament [we] have Him just…
Category: The Words of Others
What is a saint?
This comes from the preface to the book Stars Appearing: Lives of Sixty-Eight Saints of the Anglican Calendar, written by Sibil Harton, and published in 1953. I have preserved Ms. Harton’s original pronouns. What is a saint? Nothing is gained by watering him down to the level of that rather popular definition, an ordinary person…
Top Ten Theologians
Liza Anderson (@ecclesiangst), who is on the faculty at Claremont School of Theology, wrote up this #TopTenTheologians list. Here’s your next shopping list! Origen Evagrius John Cassian Gregory of Nazianzus John Climacus Pseudo-Dionysius Isaac of Nineveh Meister Eckhart Teresa of Avila John of the Cross