On January 13, 2018, my wife and I were married in the Catholic Church according to the rite provided for use by canonical members of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. One of the distinctive features of that rite is a lengthy exhortation given at the beginning of the wedding charging the…
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Just Be Natural (Living the Resurrection through Ascetic Struggle:Maximus the Confessor and the Lenten Fast, Part 3)
“Just be natural.” Variations on the theme of the importance of nature are common in our culture, but what is nature? Sometimes we mean the material world as science reveals it to us. At other times we mean the untrammeled wilderness or the world as it is unmodified by human technique. Most often, I think,…
