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4 de jun. de 2024 · Celebrated, iconic, and indispensable, Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is considered a watershed moment in American writing. First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”
Hace 6 días · It is a strange, nightmarish poem telling of events both seen and unseen — of an ominous elemental horror that is imminent and one that “slouches” from its centuries-old hibernation toward Bethlehem to be “born.”
Hace 4 días · By Caroline Perkins – April 6, 2023. Why should we meditate on the final words of Jesus from the cross? As Venerable Fulton J. Sheen explained: “There was never a preacher like the dying Christ. There was never a congregation like that which gathered about the pulpit of the Cross. There was never a sermon like the Seven Last Words.”
23 de may. de 2024 · The final lines of “The Second Coming” suggest the birth of the anti-Christ. “What rough beast, its hours come round at last/Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” To Yeats, who viewed the world in 2,000-year segments, this is not entirely negative in context.
21 de may. de 2024 · This great and renowned sovereign of the Christians was the son of Constantius Chlorus (the ruler of the westernmost parts of the Roman empire), and of the blessed Helen. He was born in 272, in (according to some authorities) Naissus of Dardania, a city on the Hellespont.
2 de jun. de 2024 · The Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph went to Bethlehem in obedience to the Roman Emperor, who ordered all his subjects to register their names in the towns or cities of their ancestors. Bethlehem...
Hace 3 días · It only states that “the star which they had seen in the East went before them” (Matthew 2:9, RSV), referring solely to the five-mile journey between Jerusalem and Bethlehem — and all that meant was that a very bright Jupiter (by the astronomical calculations some have proposed, in December, 2 B.C.) was then due south from ...
