Cathedral Dust

04/26/2025

Wanna know why we’re all so lame online? Mimicry wins attention faster than creativity builds trust.

03/22/2025

A sacramental reflection:

“Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.” St. Augustine’s beautiful exhortation has achieved immortality not because it speaks to the presence of human desire, but because it exposes the true nature of that desire: our inborn purpose as created...

02/20/2025

Bodily illness is not an obstacle to purity of heart, provided we give the body what its illness requires, not what gratifies our desire for pleasure. Food is to be taken in so far as it supports our life, but not to the extent of enslaving us to the impulses of desire. To eat moderately and reasonably is to keep the body in health, not to deprive it of holiness.

A clear rule for self-control handed down by the Fathers is this: stop eating while still hungry and do not continue until you are satisfied.

– St. John Cassian (The Philokalia)

01/01/2025

Come on, Catholics — do better!