Love In the Ruins

I'm a little sheepish about posting this, especially during the penitential season of sacrifice and humility, but I'm just too excited not to share the news.

Over the years I've had magazine and newspaper articles published but, for the first time, I've had an essay appear in a book. The subject couldn't be more dear to my heart - the Traditional Latin Mass or TLM for short. Although I usually attend the Novus Ordo, I have never stopped loving the "Mass of the Angels" as St. Thomas Aquinas called it. I hope you will be curious enough about Love in the Ruins to take a look at Angelus Press which offers a few snippets from the book. After you read them, I hope you'll order the book. Soon, I expect, there will be reviews appearing on the web. There are none yet at Angelus Press, but the book only arrived at the publishers a few days ago.

I hope you'll read it and let me know what you think. If you haven't been to the TLM in a long time or have never attended one, seek an opportunity to go. The silence can be unnerving, I think, for those who have never been, or for those who have been away for a long time, but it is in silence that we best hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. Our noisy world provides few opportunities to listen; the TLM, like the Blessed Mother who pondered things silently in her heart, magnifies the Lord.