James W. Stroud

Husband, Father, Amateur Cook, Professor, Avid Book Reader and Listener.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet ST. RADEGUND (c. 520-587), a Thuringian princess whose uncle murdered her father, who was pushed into marrying the Frankish king Clotaire I, & who fled the marriage with the Bishop of Noyon's aid & founded Sainte-Croix Abbey in Poitiers where she cared for the sick & infirm.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet JULIA GREELEY (1833-1918). Born into slavery in Missouri, she built a new life post-Emancipation as a freelance cook & nanny in St. Louis & then Denver, assisted the poor with her earnings, became a Catholic in 1880 & a Secular Franciscan late in life, & is up for sainthood.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet ST. ELISABETH OF SCHÖNAU (c. 1129-1164), Benedictine abbess at Schönau Abbey in the Duchy of Nassau. More ascetic than St. Hildegard of Bingen personally advised, she was a mystic whose brother, a monk, wrote down her visions, & she scolded Trier's archbishop for his laxity.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

St Cyprian (De domínica oratióne 18)
Et quómodo dícimus Pater noster, quia intellegéntium et credéntium Pater est, sic et panem nostrum vocámus, quia Christus eórum qui corpus eius contíngimus panis est.

And so, just as we say "Our Father", because He is the Father of those who understand and believe, we also call Him "our bread," because Christ is the bread of those who come into contact with His body.

Y así, del mismo modo que decimos «Padre nuestro», porque Él es el Padre de quienes comprenden y creen, también lo llamamos «nuestro pan», porque Cristo es el pan de quienes entran en contacto con su cuerpo.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Ps 89,25
Et véritas mea et misericórdia mea cum ipso,
et in nómine meo exaltábitur cornu eius.

Mi fidelidad y misericordia lo acompañarán,
por mi nombre crecerá su poder:

My mercy and my faithfulness shall be with him;
by my name his might shall be exalted.

Mon amour et ma fidélité sont avec lui,
mon nom accroît sa vigueur.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet BL. ANNE-MARIE JAVOUHEY (1779-1851) from Jallanges in France, who started the Sisters of St. Joseph of Cluny & their schools, orphanages, & medical ministries, & founded missions in Réunion Island, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Gambia, & Guiana where they tended to freed slaves.

[New Liturgical Movement @NLMblog]

Maurice Duruflé’s 40th Anniversary https://t.co/DWLIrTzWAL

[James W. Stroud @ProfStroud]

@philipgporter Godspeed to you and your family.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet ST. ÉMILIE DE VIALAR (1797-1856), a French physician's daughter & the foundress of the missionary Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition, whose schools, hospitals, & other works she set up starting in 1835 in what are today Algeria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Libya, Lebanon, & Malta.

[Amigo de Frodo @bpdflores]

Is 26,9
Cum resplendúerint iudícia tua in terra,
iustítiam discent habitatóres orbis.

When your judgment dawns upon the earth,
the world’s inhabitants learn justice.

porque tus juicios son luz de la tierra,
y aprenden justicia los habitantes del orbe.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet GEORGIANA FULLERTON (1812-1885), daughter of the Earl of Granville; highly-praised novelist who alienated some British critics by converting to Catholicism; biographer; Franciscan tertiary; & major Victorian philanthropist, especially after her only child, a son, died at 21.

[Real Roman Catholic Women @RealRCWomen]

Meet JERÓNIMA DE LA ASUNCIÓN (1555-1630), a Poor Clare nun who, at age 66, left Spain for the Philippines to establish its first convent. As Abbess of Manila's Royal Monastery of Santa Clara, she was barred by clerical & royal authorities from welcoming native Filipina novices.

[James W. Stroud @ProfStroud]

@McGrathND It is hard to follow John Cavadini. Joe Capizzi is definitely a great choice for this role. He's a gifted teacher, scholar, theologian, and human being. I can't wait to see what lies ahead for the McGrath Institute.

[Fr Dylan Schrader @FrDylanSchrader]

Another successful Sacra Doctrina Project conference! It's always a joy to join others for so many friendly and lively papers/conversations about God, focused this year on divine filiation. #SDP2026

@sacradoctrina members get to continue the discussion all year on our Slack.

[James W. Stroud @ProfStroud]

So many great men and women have gone before us in the pursuit of Truth. May Wilken and all these numerous forefathers and foremothers rest in peace.

[James W. Stroud @ProfStroud]

On the news of the death of Robert Louis Wilken (June 7th), I am reminded of another older scholar and late comer to Catholicism that passed away 25+ years ago, William Farmer. I never knew either of these men well. I only knew them at a distance and

[James W. Stroud @ProfStroud]

Wilken I met for the first time at a CUA lecture when he turned his attention to the roots of religious freedom in the Church Fathers. Both men radiated the joy of Christianity and the joy of academic pursuits even late in life.

[thomistica.net @thomistica]

"One can now say that...there is a substantive Thomistic position on biological evolution."
Check out our latest, a double book review of Mariusz Tabacek, O.P. and Juan Eduardo Carreño by @JohnGBrungardt

[John Cavadini @JohnCavadini]

The Limits of Willa Cather's Catholic Imagination https://t.co/hBc0BpSLjp