# Dowry > Catholic Magazine covering spirituality, theology, culture, family and life. ## Posts - [Woodcarving As Worship](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/06/woodcarving-as-worship/): Genuine beauty is the splendour of the truth. The more directly a truth refers to God, the more splendid its illustration must be. This applies supremely to the sacred liturgy. - [The Sacred Liturgy as a Secret Garden](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/04/the-sacred-liturgy-as-a-secret-garden/): An analogy between Frances Hodgson Burnett’s pre-WWI tale for children and the revelation experienced in the 2020s by adults stepping into the grace-filled haven of the traditional Roman liturgy. - [Picasso’s Guernica or, This Is Not A Corrida](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/04/picassos-guernica-or-this-is-not-a-corrida/): The bombing of Guernica in northern Spain occurred on April 26, 1937. Picasso painted a picture after the same name, becoming a turning point in his career. - [Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/03/chaste-sleuths-win-by-popular-acclaim/): Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are sedately married rather, but more often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion. - [Falling in Eucharistic Love](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/03/falling-in-eucharistic-love/): Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years - how can we help reverse this trend? - [The Diary of a Country Priest Today](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/03/the-diary-of-a-country-priest-today/): When you ponder the increasingly secularised society surrounding you are you ever tempted to wonder, ‘Why doesn’t God intervene?’ - [Tintin and the Secret of the Elusive Priests](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/02/tintin-and-the-secret-of-the-elusive-priests/): Fictional Belgian reporter Tintin is possibly the most significant comic strip character due to his seminal influence over that pictorial genre worldwide. - [The Spiritual Meaning of Making Altar Bread](https://dowry.org.uk/2025/01/the-spiritual-meaning-of-making-altar-bread/): A nun in formation at the Cistercian monastery of Valley of Our Lady reflects on her hidden life with Christ. - [What was the trade of Saint Joseph?](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/12/what-was-the-trade-of-saint-joseph/): "When Jesus came to the Jordan, He was considered to be the son of Joseph the carpenter; and He appeared without comeliness, as the Scriptures declared; and He was deemed a carpenter." - [Bl. Noël Pinot, a Shepherd for Times of Trial](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/12/bl-noel-pinot-a-shepherd-for-times-of-trial/): Frs Franck Labbé and A. de Malleray tell the story of the exemplary pastor who died wearing his priestly vestments. - [Unexpected 19th Century Catholic Revival](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/11/unexpected-19th-century-catholic-revival/): The Church of the 1800s entrenched itself in its traditions and doctrines in the face of liberalism, secularism, and nationalism. - [Noli Me Tangere](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/04/noli-me-tangere/): Do not touch me? What do you mean, Do not touch me? Lord, should your Resurrection on this Easter morning keep me from you? - [The Veil of Saint Veronica](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/03/the-veil-of-saint-veronica/): Reflection on the vivid depiction of Christ's Holy Face by engraver Claude Mellan (1649) - [God Tangled: Christ's Crowning with Thorns](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/03/god-tangled-christs-crowning-with-thorns/): As a Lenten meditation Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP explains how the thorns of the crown prophetically stem from the timber of the cross. - [Vermeer’s Angel](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/02/book-club-vermeers-angel/): Armand de Malleray’s stunning prose draws the reader into a world of intrigue and uncertainty where nothing is quite as it seems. - [Ivan Merz and the Liturgy as the Highest Form of Art](https://dowry.org.uk/2024/01/ivan-merz-and-the-liturgy-as-the-highest-form-of-art/): Philologist, teacher, literary critic, youth activist, lover of liturgy – Ivan Merz was all of these things and much more. - [The Catholic Doctrine of the Angels](https://dowry.org.uk/2023/12/book-club-the-catholic-doctrine-of-the-angels/): In 'World Invisible' Fr John Saward provides a timely synthesis of the perennial faith of Holy Church regarding God’s incorporeal creatures. - [Good News: Truth Can Be Known](https://dowry.org.uk/2023/12/good-news-truth-can-be-known/): As dusk was arising on an unusually gloomy spring morning in Palestine, the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate proposed the question, “What is truth?” - [Life as an Advent calendar](https://dowry.org.uk/2023/12/life-as-an-advent-calendar/): Perhaps not all Catholics realise that another year has passed and that a new one begins throughout the created world. To understand this we need to reflect upon time. What does time mean to us? And why are we Catholics best equipped for grasping the meaning of time, and thus to make the best use of every instant? As St Augustine noted long ago, God created us ‘in view of’ Him and our hearts are restless until they rest in Him. Such are our common origin and destination. Hence no one is stationary or immobile. We are all on our […] - [England is Our Lady's Dowry](https://dowry.org.uk/2023/12/england-is-our-ladys-dowry/): The Annunciation “Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let it bedone to me according to thy Word” (Luke 1:38). At the Annunciation, Our Blessed Lady said yes to the Angel Gabriel,who asked her to conceive and give birth to God’s son. She freely accepted God’s will in her life. We also are free to say yes or no to God. Mary’s yes changed the world. “Answer with a word, receive theWord of God. Speak your own word, conceive the divine Word. Breathe a passing word, embrace the eternal Word”, wrote St Bernard of Clairvaux. The story of the Annunciation (Luke […] ## Pages - [Cookie Policy (UK)](https://dowry.org.uk/cookie-policy-uk/) - [Articles](https://dowry.org.uk/articles/) - [Support](https://dowry.org.uk/support/): Support Our Apostolate We invite readers from Scotland and Ireland to make this publication more widely known, as well as in England and Wales. Dowry is given to you for free, but contributions are welcome since each copy of Dowry costs £2 to produce, print and post. The full series of Dowry archival material is accessible online: fssp.org.uk/category/dowry/  Thank you for your generosity. 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