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Jul 17

Mission Territory

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Aliens, Bach, and the Voyager 1 Space Probe By Philip Zaleski Next month—August, 2017—marks the fifth anniversary of the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s entry into interstellar space. At this time, Voyager 1 remains the first and only man-made object to escape the solar…

Jul 17

Bookwatch: The Radiance of Being

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The Way of Wisdom in Stratford Caldecott's The Radiance of Being (Angelico Press, 2013) By Fr Dominic White, o.p. According to the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom calls and raises her voice. But do we hear her? Perhaps her voice seems hard to hear because…

May 19

Illuminating Fine Art with Red Gibbons-Lejeune

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We interview a new Second Spring House Artist We have been recruiting a team of house artists here at Second Spring, to bring another dimension to our online offerings, and to showcase works of art that we think our readers will enjoy. We…

May 07

Second Spring, Roots and Branches

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Introducing our new website By Léonie Caldecott “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.” Henry David Thoreau In 2016 the winner of the Royal Television Society award for best Science and Natural History programme was…

May 07

Reports: Our 2017 Summer School

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Experience the England of Tolkien, Chesterton, and Newman “A student who loves J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis, or Cardinal Newman or G.K. Chesterton, would naturally wish at some point to visit England, and come to Oxford, and see the places where these…

May 07

A Daughter’s Tribute to Stratford Caldecott

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Artist Rose-Marie Caldecott describes how her father inspired her work From the beginning of my relationship with paint, I have been interested in how a painting might communicate the fact that everything in nature—including ourselves—exists in a state of flux. To be…

May 07

Stratford Caldecott on Education

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Charlotte Ostermann’s interview with Stratford Caldecott about Beauty in the Word and Beauty for Truth's Sake. The following interview took place in 2012 and is re-posted from Stratford Caldecott’s blog, Beauty in Education. 1. Fr. Giussani speaks of the “risk of education”.…

May 07

Rod Dreher and The Benedict Option

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A Historian’s Perspective By Martin Knight The publication in March 2017 of Rod Dreher’s long-awaited The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation has prompted some serious debate over the question of the Church’s obligations to conservation and evangelisation…

May 07

All is Grace

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A Spiritual Reflection By Father Michael Gaudoin-Parker Grace floods our whole lives, enlightening and transforming us to see clearly and live fully our human potential: a potential that comes from God. This means acknowledging with gratitude the gifts and blessings we receive…

May 07

Bookwatch: The Ordeal of Mercy

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Jennifer Doane Upton, The Ordeal of Mercy: Dante’s Purgatorio in Light of the Spiritual Path, edited by Charles Upton (Angelico Press/Sophia Perennis, 2015) By Michael Martin “It is one of the greatest merits of Dante’s poem,” wrote T.S. Eliot, “that the vision…