Devin O'Donnell

From "Winefred's Well": Therefore airy vengeances Are afoot; heaven-vault fast purpling portends, and what first lightning Any instant...

Yesterday marked the beginning of the season of Advent, the new year of the Church calendar, that season of dark that precedes the dawn,...

The knowledge Orual is given is not a gnostic "secret" or "special" knowledge. Nor is her epistemological transformation an initiation...

We are perhaps all familiar with St. Paul's "Ode to Love" in 1 Corinthians 13. We may be less familiar, however, with the relation that...

In our reading of Till We Have Faces, we have finally came to the scene from which the novel takes it name. We began to assimilate the...

Scripture declares that we should not "complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Now all these...

The yellow fire that falls from limb and tree, Returns its shelléd body to be free, Treasure in leaves and gilded bones, Illumines the...

"Not for school, but for life do we learn." This is always important to remember—nay, it is the sine qua non of education. Here we have...

Happy All Saints' Day! Yesterday was "All Hallows Eve" (the day before All Saint's Day) and the origin for our word "Halloween." The...

According to Catholic tradition, "Simon, surnamed the Chanaanite and Zelotes, and Thaddeus, the writer of one of the Catholic Epistles,...

Today we continue our study of the past, which is almost as foreign to us as an alien culture. The "Old Western Culture" that is our...

So far we've considered the Christic imagery of Prometheus in chains. But the reason why we sympathize with Prometheus is a Christian...

Consider the painting below, Francois Nome's "Landscape with Roman Ruins." Consider the ghostly figures hanging about the ruins of the...

Today we are continuing right along with our reading and study of Hesiod's Theogeny. The distinctions between his account of creation...

A fitting question as we begin another year, but it's so easy to lose sight amid the turbulence of inertia and beginning on a new year....

A few Mondays ago it was Labor Day. But that's a secular holiday. On the Church Calendar, September 3 was not a celebration of "workers"...

Hello Parents and Students, Soon it will be "Michaelmas," which is the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels on September 29th. This is...