by Emily Archer | Aug 24, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Catholic Life
I’m slowly making my way through Fr. Mike Schmitz’s Bible in a Year podcast. Not his newest one, mind you—I’ve just passed the halfway mark for last year’s podcast. Sometimes I go weeks without listening, but I keep coming back because gosh darn it, at some point I...
by Emily Archer | Jul 21, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Catholic Life, Culture
“Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.” – G.K. Chesterton People in our culture today—and I am by no means excluding Catholics from this observation—are both fascinated and repulsed by the idea of boundaries. We...
by Emily Archer | Jun 13, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Catholic Life, Culture
June is traditionally the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus comes to us most popularly through St. Margaret Mary Alacocque, a 17th century French nun. She experienced visions of Jesus in which He shared with her the...
by Emily Archer | Apr 8, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Lent
“Remember, you will die.” Better known perhaps in Latin, “memento mori” is the catchy phrase that the Church has inherited from centuries of tradition. It’s never been a particular favorite of mine – it’s a bit of a downer, very pithy, and therefore to my mind...
by Emily Archer | Mar 3, 2022 | TOBET Blog, by Emily Archer, Culture, Lent
Increasingly, we as a society are not at ease in our own bodies. In the last twenty years, the availability of computers, smart phones, and other “screens” have made it easier than ever to “connect” with others—indeed, to live—in complete physical isolation. At the...