Publications and Unpublications

Below is a list of links to my published writings, as well as some unpublished papers and drafts.  At the very bottom of the page are links to a few previously-popular pages on this blog, since I removed them from the main navigation bar.

Publications:

• "The Sacramental Nature of Beauty and Liturgical Worship," Power of Beauty Conference, Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, Steubenville, OH (10/24/2014)
  
• "The Awe-Inspiring Mysteries: The Importance of Mystagogy," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (8/09/2015) 
• "The Debt of Glory and the Liturgy as Fitting Payment," The Liturgy: It Is Right and Justice Conference, Society for Catholic Liturgy, New York, NY (10/03/2015)
  
• "Eastern Christian Liturgy in a Western Homily," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (5/28/2016)
  
• "The Dialectic of Mutual Glorification," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (11/4/2016)
• "The Plain Duty of Fasting," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (3/09/2017)
  
• "Lessons from a Patristic Homily," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (5/18/2018)
• A translation of a homily by St. Proklos of Constantinople (d. 446), with commentary
  
• "Confirmation in the Church Fathers," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (4/30/2019)
  
• "Expanding the Narratives of Scripture," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (4/09/2021)
• A discussion of how various writers of Christian epics or long narrative poems have added to the somewhat sparse narratives of Scripture to aid their literary efforts; poets discussed include John Milton, Marco Girolamo Vida, and James W. Lynch
  
•  "Magdalene in the Desert," Homiletic & Pastoral Review (2/24/2023)
• Translations of excerpts from the Elevation Regarding Mary Magdalene by Cardinal Pierre de Bérulle (1575-1629)
  

 

Unpublications:

• "The Symbolism of the Mystery of Crowning" (2012)
• My senior undergraduate thesis: an analysis of the history and symbolism of the Byzantine Rite of Marriage
  
• "The Aesthetics of Aidan Nichols" (2016)
• "The Marvelous in Stories" (2019)
• Discusses how Christian narrative poetry can reintegrate the concept of the marvelous, building off of Torquato Tasso's Discourses on the Heroic Poem
• "David the Lawyer in Wyatt's 'Psalm 51'" (2020)
  
• Discusses Thomas Wyatt's "Psalm 51," in his Penitential Psalms, as an example of a paraphrase (in Dryden's sense), a translation that incorporates commentary within itself
  

 

Blog Links:

• How to Discuss the Eastern Church: A Grammatical Primer (4/13/2013)
• The Church Documents Table of Contents (2011-2013)