Lily Bart’s fall from status is bare, pitiless, and relentlessly humiliating: she stumbles from step to ugly lower step until things the reader thought unconscionable on page one seem like Divine Intervention by page fifty.

In short, it is excruciating. Which is exactly the point.

Explore with us what Edith Wharton's Gilded Age tragedy has to do with Wisdom, Authenticity, & ultimately the Life of Grace.

What could the Modernist iconoclasts of the early 20th century have to teach us about sacramentality? I think you’ll be surprised. By looking beyond the surface of Virginia Woolf’s poetic prose, we can almost taste the spiritual realities hiding behind everyday things, and in the wake of the great Feast of Corpus Christi, Woolf’s vivid imagery can help us awaken all the more to the ‘Godhead here in hiding’.

A Christmas Carol? During Lent?! 

Yes, you read that correctly. But, surely we’re just mixing up our liturgical seasons?

Perhaps, but this Christmas classic might also be the paradoxical key that helps us unlock the challenge and gift of Lent.