2.The life or condition of a person in a religious order:a widow who went into religion and became a nun. 3.A cause, principle, or activity pursued with zeal or conscientious devotion:a person for whom art became a religion. Idiom: ...
The Herbert whom we meet in his poems is a person very much in process: unfinished, imperfect, always aspiring to something higher. He cared deeply about formation and growth – his own as well as that of his congregation. As poet and priest he used all possible art to move those with ...
The world rejoiced with with the election of theCardinal from Venicewho becamePope John Paul I. He was relatively young and vibrant with a happy smile. Popes were crowned and enthroned like kings up to the election of Paul VI. John Paul I changed all that by abdicating the throne after 1...
My memories from several decades of creative Easter Vigils tend to conflate and become less true as memory simplifies and smooths out the details, so I am happy to possess this vivid firsthand impression from an attentive observer having the Christ Church Vigil experience for the first time. ...