Etheldredasplace

One of the marks of the real Christian is charity. Serenity in the face of interruptions to our lives or inconveniences caused by the real ...

Theophoroi” or God-bearers. When was the last time you heard a sermon on the Indwelling of the Trinity? I referred to this Truth of the Cat...

If you are in England and have not heard this great news, check out Father Ed Tomlinson's site. St. Augustine's in Ramsgate is now ...

I suppose there are enough holy wells in Ireland to fill the Thames, but yesterday I visited the holy well of Saint Ciarán of Disert-Kieran,...

On Perfection continued... These posts seem to be popular, so I shall do two today. It is Lent, and such meditations may be helpful for som...

Reading Garrigou-Lagrange again and again, I am struck with the idea of docility. Now, some of us are made more or less docile. As a person ...

And now, for something completely different. How does one make Dwarves into heroes? For the coming movie of The Hobbit , the Disney idea of...

If you do not read any other blog in America except the great Fr. Z's, may I again suggest a look at Dr. Sanity. Check this out for styl...

I would like to thank Olivia and her brother at the Headfort Arms for letting me blog away in their hotel. This hotel has great food and gr...

In 1994, a long time ago for the modern era, Blessed John Paul II's Crossing the Threshold of Hope was published. At the time, the boo...

A few days ago, I wrote of the lack of the work ethic. What I did not elaborate in the post was the downside of the Calvinistic idea that ...

As a theme of this week has been youth, today I salute St. Dominic Savio. Here is a young man who was saintly at a very young age, proving t...

Today I am thinking of St. Joan of Arc. She is a young hero for today's youth. She is a role model for personal holiness and fidelity t...

As those who have read my blog now and in years past know, my basic spirituality, as best as I can manage in the lay world, is Benedictine. ...

Blessed John Paul II in his Crossing the Threshold of Hope states this: (Youth) is a time given by Providence to every person and given to...

My three posts today all relate to seminarians. I start with the interesting Norms for Priestly Formation. I have been looking at two reco...

The Great Spencer has an article on his site concerning the desecration of war graves in Libya. Why can't we realize that this is a clas...

You would not believe this unless it came from the horses' mouth, as it were. The Beeb admitted that to mock Jesus is fair-game, but to ...

Check out this blog for a sad story of priests standing up for the Church being persecuted. No wonder priests back down, and do not serve th...

I was raised in the Midwest, in Iowa, to be exact. We inherited, as children, the Work Ethic from our parents and grandparents, even though ...