Elizabeth Scalia, Author at Word on Fire

Elizabeth Scalia

Contributor

Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and author of several books including the award-winning Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life (Ave Maria Press) and Little Sins Mean a Lot (OSV). Formerly the Word on Fire Editor-at-Large, she also served as Editor-in-Chief of the English edition of Aleteia and as Managing Editor of the Catholic section of Patheos.com. Elizabeth blogs as “The Anchoress” at www.theanchoress.com. She is married and living on Long Island.

Throwing Away Our Holy Things

State-by-State: A Litany to Mary, Patroness of America

Halloween, All Saints’, All Souls’: The “Autumn Triduum” of Waiting

Accepting the Most Royal of Invitations: To Suffer

In a World of Miracles, We Can’t Look Away from Ourselves

The Shocking Truth: It Is Good That You Exist

Lord, Bless That Person I Hate So Much

A Sick Dog and a Lesson in Communion of All Types

Bono, John Lennon, St. Augustine—and the Big Love

Maxmilian Kolbe: A Most Subversive Priest

Honesty and Courage: Cornel West and Robert George Speak Out

Engaging Online Toxicity: 5 Tips from St. Benedict

Jesus of Nazareth, Breaker of Hearts

“We See Light”: Reconciliation Must Cost Us Something

When Hate Begins to Feel Like Love

Sigrid Undset and “Those Queer Men and Women the Catholic Church Calls Saints”

Ascension: The Commingling of Heaven and Earth Goes On

Catholicism Post COVID-19: Things May Look Very Different

Mother of the Church: There Will Be Bread

When Mary Met the Sword of Simeon’s Prophecy

How Does Loving One’s Enemies Work, Really?

Catholic Prayer and Adoration—Through Space and Outside of Time

Coronavirus, Confession, and the God Who Knows

St. Thecla: Model of Prayer in a Time of Plague

When God Gives You a Leveler, Learn How to Use It!

Hello, Original Sin! Adam and Eve Meet Vulnerability and Accountability

Jesus’ Great Challenge: “Show Me Who You Are!”

God Consents to Being More Vulnerable Than We Ever Do

John the Baptist, First Victim of the Cancel Culture

Why Did Jesus So Often Feel a Need for Secrecy?

In the Midst of Miracle, Christ Jesus Asks Us an Important Question

Why Must We Pick Up Our Mats and Bring Them Home?

Saint Joseph, the Perfect Patron

George Bailey, Meet Thomas Merton

To Jesus Through Mary? Why Yes, and T’was Ever Thus!

A Time to Keep Silence, and a Time to Speak

A Mass of Comfortable Familiarity and Ardent Longing

Making a Holy Hour? Here Are Some Reading Recommendations for Adoration

What Do You Do at Adoration?

Jesus May Not “Need” Our Adoration, But He Asked for It

Nocturnal Adoration: Where the Milk and Honey Flows

Stay Hungry: The Gift of Small Humiliations

The Best Lesson Ratzinger Ever Taught Me

Amazon’s “Ave Maria” Ad Brings Us to a Martha and Mary Moment

King Herod and the Wisdom of Spiritual Detachment

Living Within a Formed Catholic Conscience Is Not for Wimps

Do Not Be Afraid: Use Your Catholic Imagination

The Quality of Evangelism and Preaching Does Not Depend Upon a Pulpit