Monthly Theme: May
Goodbye to St. Augustine and the month of April, say hello to...
Dear Crew,
We hope you enjoyed our writings on St. Augustine this past month! If there’s any essay you enjoyed in particular, then please be sure to like it and share it with others.
During one of our last Broken Binnacle meetings, before it was posted, we had a great discussion about the topic that Matt addressed in his piece An Age of Augustinian Curiosity—it came out as a wonderful essay, and we hope you were able to learn something valuable from it yourself. If anything, we hope these kinds of essays are a source of inspiration for your own conversations with friends and family, whether that’s during dinner, around a campfire, or over some refreshing Kentucky Mules on a fine Saturday evening.
Speaking of spirits, our theme for this merry month of May is related…
The Sacraments
This month, we’ll be diving into the theme of the Catholic Sacraments. While our essays will certainly touch on their Scriptural bases, we don’t intend—nor are we able—to do full theological justice to whichever Sacraments we write about. None of us are theologians in any official capacity. Even then, the greatest theologians could never do full justice to these mysteries either. We do hope, however, to share informative insights, spiritual edifications, and personal testimonies when it comes to these wonderful gifts given to the Church by Christ for our sake.
If you’d like a quick introduction to the Catholic Sacraments, I’d recommend checking out the two following videos from The Thomistic Institute:
“The human person is an incarnate spirit. We human beings are neither mere inanimate matter nor an angelic incorporeal spirit…The sacramental structure of divine revelation takes into account our most authentic reality. It suits our most radical being, our capacity, and our way of interrelating in the deepest dimensions of communication. The deepest encounters between human persons are always interpersonal.
Cheers to May 2024!
April Recap:
In case you missed any of our essays from the April series on St. Augustine, you can catch up here:
Saint Augustine’s Two Wills by Peter Cermak
Signs and Sophistry by James O’Reilly
An Age of Augustinian Curiosity by Matthew McShurley
Augustine’s Two Cities by John Jakubisin