Anthony Maranise

Anthony Maranise, Obl.S.B. is the middle school religion instructor at St. Ann Catholic School of Bartlett (TN) and is a doctoral scholar in the Ed.D. program for interdisciplinary leadership at Creighton University (Omaha, NE). Apart from these roles, Anthony is the author of five books, a New Memphis Institute research and leadership fellow, a certified chaplain, and an oblate of the Order of Saint Benedict associated with St. Bernard Abbey (Cullman, AL). You may learn more about him by visiting his personal website at: amaranis.wix.com/amjm or by visiting his LinkedIn profile at: www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-maranise.

Latest Articles By Anthony Maranise
Sunsets to Sunrise
Sunsets to Sunrise
I would like to highlight for you, now, but two examples from God’s Word wherein we see Jesus speaking about, if not promising, that finality may not be as final as we suspect… at least on this side of eternity.
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The Beauty of Broken Mirrors
The Beauty of Broken Mirrors
"If you ever feel like you're not enough, I'm going to break all your mirrors."
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Holy Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic: A Spiritual Meditation
Holy Week & Easter During a Time of Pandemic: A Spiritual Meditation
We tend to view the happenings around us through a “me-centered” prism. Some examples help: That four-engine long train is going to make me late for work!; That Dow plunge cost me so much yesterday!; perhaps even, Social distance is making me stir-crazy! How relevant that last one, right?
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Remember (Part II) - Meaning in Our Memories
Remember (Part II) - Meaning in Our Memories
Both the wisdom and accounting of events in Sacred Scripture illustrate the value and importance of memory to God Himself.
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Remember (Part I) - The Importance of Memory in Scripture
Remember (Part I) - The Importance of Memory in Scripture
To be forgotten… That is one of my top 3 greatest fears. It’s right up there with losing people I love and most spiders. For me, being forgotten about – especially after I am gone from this life, or for that matter, even from any person’s life – indicates that someone must not care enough even to remember the probably little good there is about me.
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Supernatural CPR: An Anamnestic View into the Meaning of Christ's Final Breath
Supernatural CPR: An Anamnestic View into the Meaning of Christ's Final Breath
The classic Christian text from antiquity, apart from the Holy Gospels themselves, of course, which govern the religious order to which I am spiritually-affiliated is known as “The Rule of St. Benedict.”
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Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality
Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer & Christian Spirituality
The city of Memphis (in Tennessee) sometimes gets a negative ‘rep’ from people outside her limits. However, if for no other redeeming quality (even though I believe there are many), Memphis itself deserves respect for being home to a continuous-miracle. In the heart of downtown rests our brightest beacon of hope: St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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Longing for "Eternal Easter"
Longing for "Eternal Easter"
Merely days ago, I graduated, at long last, with my Masters in Theology. Treasuring as I do all that I learned, the professors that taught me, and my classmates, all of whom became friends, the graduation itself, while welcomed, was also bittersweet in that it was an ending of a process and way-of-living I had grown accustomed to.
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Consecrating Competition: Sports, Catholic Culture, & New Evangelization
Consecrating Competition: Sports, Catholic Culture, & New Evangelization
On July 27th, 2015, the temperature was a steamy 97 degrees in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the first day that practices were allowed to begin again for high school football teams and their upcoming season.
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In Defense of the Pro-Life Generation
In Defense of the Pro-Life Generation
One of the most inane social media comments I had the misfortune of reading recently came on the day of the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
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Sports as Ecclesiological Analogy
Sports as Ecclesiological Analogy
The faithful need look no further than to the Pauline epistles if they wished to find some of the earliest examples and uses of analogy or metaphor within the Christian tradition. St. Paul often wrote, and encouraged in faith, the congregants of the various churches he established by the use of athletic metaphors
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Sustaining Providence With Promises
Sustaining Providence With Promises
Though I have previously written about “divine providence” in the Catholic spiritual life before, the meaning of the term is worth revisiting. The Dominican theologian, Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, in his scholarly work on providenc,e defines and elaborates upon it thusly: “Divine Providence is God’s intervention in the world, particularly in the lives of His human creation.”
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Sacramentality & Sports: Towards an Understanding in Brief
Sacramentality & Sports: Towards an Understanding in Brief
When I watch or participate in sports, of course I watch for the love of the game and I play for the joy of the competition, but as a theologian who examines how sports and spirituality intersect, I also watch for more.
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Tattoos & the Transmission of Faith
Tattoos & the Transmission of Faith
Full disclosure: I have 10 tattoos… and I am very much Catholic. Perhaps that’s a shocking way to introduce a piece that attempts to bridge a perceived gap between two seemingly disconnected subjects, but I wish to point out, up front, that the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) delineates no position on the morality or immorality of the faithful receiving tattoos.
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Providence in the Plains
Providence in the Plains
I recently flew from Memphis to Omaha to visit a person very dear to me for a few days. This journey also marked my first trip to Nebraska and to the part of our United States which is known as “The Great Plains.”
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