“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flamesNo light; but rather darkness visible…” – John Milton, "Paradise Lost" There is an extraordinarily haunting and even somewhat terrifying scene
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On June 22, 2022, the “Young Adult Group” at the Archdiocese of San Francisco’s Most Holy Redeemer Roman Catholic Parish (MHR) will host a “Pride Month Parish-Wide Happy Hour” at The Mix Bar in the
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“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.” – Jordan Peterson. “Father asks to have it passed on to all who have remained loyal to him and to those on
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In order to save my life, God sent me the one saint who perfectly exemplified the human attributes that I most feared: FatherhoodMasculinityStrengthBraveryFortitude For as long as I could remember – I yearned to embody
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I felt sick. I was nauseous. My stomach hurt. I stood up, turned around, and headed for the exit. Outside in the hall, I looked around. I saw a sign and walked towards the restroom.
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“Murder and arson, betrayal and terror.Mutilate your subjects, if you must.But with my last breath, I beg you……do not mutilate the arts.” ― Gaius Petronius, “Quo Vadis” (1951) The mass production of inexpensive religious devotional
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I never thought I’d be one of those people. I grew up in the North Bay – that largely agricultural, suburban, and affluent section of the San Francisco metro-area that comprises Marin, Sonoma, and Napa
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“He who does not live in Christ…already lives in the Abyss, and not all the treasures of this world can ever fill his emptiness.” – Fr. Seraphim Rose, "Nihilism: The Root of Revolution of the
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On March 21, 2021, Fr. Joe Nassal, C.PP.S., celebrated Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church (MHR) in San Francisco. In a 2015 article from “The National Catholic Reporter,” MHR was described as “the ‘gayest’
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Above: "Sick man at the walls of a Catholic monastery," by Fyodor Bronnikov (1874). “If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn One day, I
“If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter,
“…icons, just as well as the Scriptures, are expressions of the inexpressible.” – Vladimir Lossky I grew up around icons. My father was an immigrant from Sicily. What little he brought with him to the
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Above: Marie Spartali Stillman, "How the Virgin Came to Brother Conrad in Offia and Laid her Son in his Arms," 1892. “What he would have liked, without admitting it, was for the whole world, forever
Bring aid to one who has solace nowhere nowSave in you and your Son.I beg you, order the sacred doorsTo be opened to me;Mistress of heaven, allow me to look uponThe royal marks of the
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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky In the year 2000, I went on a pilgrimage to France. One of my
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