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"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine

Hand on heart, there are some parts of the whole chastity movement which I find really annoying. For me, the chief offender here is “the modesty talk”. Now, to be clear, I have heard some excellent talks on modesty. However, I’ve also sat and listened to many which I thought were asinine, prudish and made me roll my eyes until I felt dizzy.
This week I came across this video by Emily Wilson where she expresses similar frustrations. She too gets irritated when the primary reason given for girls dressing modestly is to not lead men to lustful thoughts. She thinks that the primary reason for dressing modestly lies somewhere else…
Emily gets it. Emily dresses classily. Be like Emily.
Given that we’ve just celebrated Christmas and the New Year is just around the corner, it seems a fitting time to post this video from Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’ stepson, who gave this sermon at Liberty University back in 2011…

“The Nativity” by Gari Melchers
In our Advent study this week, we touched on the subject of priesthood and I asked my favourite trick question: how many priests are there in the Catholic Church? Fr. Mike answers this question in the rather oddly-titled video “Why we don’t drink coffee at Mass”…
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If you’ve listened to the Restless Heart podcast, you’ll have certainly heard us talk about this San Diego apostolate:
At the 50th Anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ death, he was honoured in Westminster Abbey’s “Poet’s Corner”. To mark the anniversary and this honour, there was a C.S. Lewis Symposium with lectures given by noted C.S. Lewis experts. Here are the videos of those presentations: