"Christ is the artist, tenderly wiping away all the grime of sin that disfigures the human face and restoring God's image to its full beauty."
-St. Gregory of Nyssa
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Saint Charles of Sezze - Glorious Mysteries
Pray and Sacrifice for Bishop Michael W. Warfel of Great Falls-Billings
Remembering Cardinal Pell, by Tracey Rowland at CWR
What's in a Name?, by Denise Trull at Dappled Things
Best-Ever Pigs in a Blanket, by Kelli Foster at Kitchn
Podcast:Â On Benedict XVI -Reason, Freedom, Beauty, and the Intellectual Sources of Secularism and the New Evangelization, by Michael Matheson Miller at The Moral Imagination
A Driveway Is Transformed Into a Gardener’s Multi-Use Retreat, by Hugh Garvey at Sunset
The Renaissance Painting Found by Chance in a London Bedroom, by V.M. Traverso at Aleteia
‘Lunatic Farmer’ Joel Salatin: ‘You Cannot Have Freedom Without Participation’, by Samantha Strayer at The Federalist
A Sign of Uselessness, by Maria Brandell at New Polity
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This trio of goodies from The Mercantile makes a fun and perfect gift (almost Valentine's Day, hint hint!)