Shouldering A Hidden Wound
Science has newly confirmed something about the Shroud of Turin that saints already knew. Centuries ago, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux in ecstasy asked Jesus which was His greatest unrecorded suffering and the wound that inflicted the most pain on Him in Calvary and Jesus answered: “I had on My Shoulder, while I bore My Cross […]
Will Beauty Save the World? Well…
Toward the beginning of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot, the central character Prince Myshkin is shown a portrait of a young woman named Nastassya Filippovna by a Madame Yepanchin, his hostess. She holds Nastassya in contempt because her moral reputation is tarnished. “So, you appreciate that kind of beauty?” she asks the prince. “Yes. That […]