Over at millinerd all of the year's horrible ideas have died. A few highlights:

This is a great sermon: @ForgingPloughs

And Merton was never entirely free from that fallacy, “that persistent desire to be somebody, which is really so stupid.” Here he is in 1967 saying that was the reason he had an affair, from which he then repented (Learning to Love: The Journals, Vol. Six, p. 216).

RT @DouthatNYT: Good morning, it's publication day, longer thread a bit later in the day, for now just the friendly plug (and a note that s…

An excerpt from a piece at @ChurchLifeND for the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes

Walsingham trending... on it!

Pairs nicely with @revdrgregpeters fantastic book, The Monkhood of All Believers.

@Makaminsk @Sophiologist_ You do.

“But the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:35) via @addisonhart

@Sophiologist_ Opposite. And that last poem in the book. Oh man.

RT @JMWSPT: As NVR makes clear, the time has come for writers to beginning submitting their work to The Colosseum. Our first issue comes ou…

Larsen @Current_Pub1 on the full-bodied apologist

RT @jwilson1812two:

I’m happy for my friend @RyanTAnd and for the free exchange of ideas.

Thrilling as American politics may be, how delighted I am to be able to look at it all from a distance with my first print issue of @TheCriticMag finally in hand.

And Girard's closing words:

Student presentation today on the myth of Narcissus and Caravaggio, concluding with a calculated indictment of social media. Sensing resonance in a room of 30, I asked how many students have given up social media completely. More than half enthusiastically raised their hands.

Choose this day whom you shall serve.