Etheldredasplace

Many posts today and yesterday--hope you can catch-up. Malta is officially in recession, but, praise God, the bishops finally made a defin...

A good reader of this blog noted Garrigou-Lagrange's note that  "Weakness and ignorance do not take away culpability for sin"....

St. Joachim, whose feast day is shared with his wife, St. Ann (see below) like other married saints, has an interesting name according to...

I have had feedback from readers who want me to go through the list of Garrigou-Lagrange's sins and categories. I did that on two yester...

Thomas Sowell: worth reading. Random thoughts on the passing scene: Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will hav...

On the night of August 11th into the morning of the 12th, one can watch the Perseid Meteor Shower. I was in Kent for the last one and saw ma...

Happy Feast Day of St. Ann, one of my name-patrons. God bless all my friends who have the name of Ann, all my friends who have birthdays ...

Acquaintances and friends have dropped me recently because they are involved in following false prophets and seers. When I pointed out the...

Some of my friends and I have noticed a fashion design change, which is huge. A few years ago, one could not find skirts or dresses in ma...

Thanks, Wiki Well, I haven't written about Gramsci for a long time, and as I only have 16 articles in which I mention him by name,...

In case you missed this, Michael Voris adds to my opinion, expressed here and elsewhere, that the USCCB has to go.

A reader asked me to break down some of the categories of sin and concupiscence. I hope this answers her questions. Here was the original ...

So as not to fall into despair, one must cultivate the virtues, which we should be doing in childhood. The habit of virtue can be taugh...

St, Gabriel, the great angel of God, is the patron of many things. Today, I invoke him as patron of postal workers, postal services, post of...

This news is a bit late, but it is good news--I had a post on this earlier, but I want to follow-up on this.. On July 11th in Coraville, ...

Tomorrow, I shall write about the virtues which counteract the sins and tendencies listed today. The All Pure, All Holy Theotokos The...

sloth, spiritual torpor and discouragement One of the most important lessons to learn in the spiritual life is NOT to believe one is at...

St. Augustine tells us, using Garrigou-Lagrange, that God never asks us to do the impossible. If God desires us to be one with Him and He do...

Mike Huckabee, speaking on his Fox News show, said America doesn’t have a gun problem or crime problem but a “sin problem” and that while th...

Some CEO must have wanted his nephew to have a job. This is SO  bad I have to share it. G4S has a theme song and it is bad ...Should we writ...