Talk About the Weather G.K. CHESTERTON 1910
—Ink and Echoes— Talk About the Weather from What’s Wrong With the World G.K. Chesteron —1910— It is admitted, one may hope, that common things are never commonplace. Birth is covered with curtains precisely because it is a staggering and monstrous prodigy. Death and first love, though they happen to everybody, can stop one’s heart […]
The Season of Epiphany JOHN HENRY NEWMAN 1843
—Ink and Echoes— The Season of Epiphany John Henry Newman 1843 The Epiphany is a season especially set apart for adoring the glory of Christ. The word may be taken to mean the manifestation of His glory, and leads us to the contemplation of Him as a King upon His throne in the midst of His […]
Do It Ourselves McNabb
—Ink and Echoes— Do It Ourselves from The Church and the Land Fr. Vincent McNabb —1925— We were talking about the present breakdown of social machinery. It was agreed by both of us that when the King’s Speech, or in other words the Government, of a few years ago confessed that unemployment could not be […]
The National Thanksgiving
SARAH JOSEPHA HALE1857
—Ink and Echoes— The National Thanksgiving Sarah Josepha Hale —1857— Premium Subscribers Sorry, this feature is only available for H&F Print Premium subscribers. You can sign up here. (If you are already a Print Premium subscriber, be sure to click the authentication link you were sent by email so this won’t happen again.) Then he […]
On Faith and Factions
GEORGE WASHINGTON
1796
—Ink and Echoes— On Faith and Factions from his “Farewell Address” George Washington —1796— The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to […]
Rise Thou Up
GEORGE MACDONALD1873
—Ink and Echoes— Rise Thou Up excerpted from The Seaboard Parish George MacDonald —1873— Look at the death that falls upon the world in winter. And look how it revives when the sun draws near enough in the spring to wile the life in it once more out of its grave. See how the pale, meek snowdrops come up with […]
What God Concealed
G.K. Chesterton
1908
—Ink and Echoes— What God Concealed fromOrthodoxy G.K. Chesteron —1908— It is said that Paganism is a religion of joy and Christianity of sorrow; it would be just as easy to prove that paganism is pure sorrow and Christianity pure joy. Such conflicts mean nothing and lead nowhere. Everything human must have in it both […]
Bonfire
G.K. CHESTERTON
1936
On MailsHILAIRE BELLOC1906 —Ink and Echoes— Bonfire from A Miscellany of Men G.K. Chesteron —1912— In the field beyond the end of my garden the materials for a bonfire had been heaped; a hill of every kind of rubbish and refuse and things that nobody wants; broken chairs, dead trees, rags, shavings, newspapers, new religions, […]
Drawn From the City
EDWARD PAYSON ROE
1887
—Ink and Echoes— Drawn From the City from The Home Acre Edward Payson Roe —1887— Land hunger is so general that it may be regarded as a natural craving. Artificial modes of life, it is true, can destroy it, but it is apt to reassert itself in later generations. To tens of thousands of bread-winners […]
Shakespeare & the Fate of America: A Wandering Review of Coriolanus
Shakespeare & the Fate of America A Wandering Review of Coriolanus Fr. Anthony Giambrone “What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues, that, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?” Does any character in the whole Shakespearean canon have opening lines to match those of the proud Caius Martius, soon to bear the honorific agnomen […]