Sunday, 19 August 2012

St. Bernard on Using Knowledge as Charity and Wisdom

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“There are people who only wish to know for the sake of knowing: this is base curiosity. Others wish to know in order that they themselves m...

Fourth part of the mini-series on St. Bernard, the Saint of Love

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The Blessed Virgin Mary is St. Bernard's Lady. Bernard was born and lived in the age of the great poets of Romance. He experienced an i...

Third part of the mini-series on the Saint of Love

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from Sermons on The Song of Songs, 2 It would seem that this holy kiss was of necessity bestowed on the world for two reasons. Withou...

Second part of the mini-series on St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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Can you imagine in the cold and damp monastery of Clairvaux, in the refectory or monastery church, St. Bernard reading to his monks an exp...

The Saint of Love--a mini-series

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St. Bernard of Clairvaux is my favourite saint and Dante puts him high in heaven, Beatrice leaving Dante in the hands of the mystic saint...

See How They Love One Another

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The passage I have been contemplating this week is from Ephesians 4:30-5:2. One of the marks of this section is that St. Paul is writing ...
Saturday, 18 August 2012

Michael Voris, a Great Blog, and RealClearReligion on the Scandal of the Al Smith Dinner--It Continues

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http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2012/08/16/obama_roasts_cardinal_dolan.html

Have we all become the Lumpenproletariat? The Politics of Identity

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In a book written in 1845 entitled, The German Ideology , Marx and Engels used a term first used by Hegel to describe a sub-group of peop...

Some of my criteria for publishing comments

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On allowing commentators ideas to be published depends on criteria, which many bloggers hold dear: 1) No Anonymous comments are publis...

Another Great Post from JonathanCatholic: on the Al Smith Dinner

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Forgotten Truth and the Al Smith Dinner Scandal, a Commentary His Excellency, Cardinal Dolan’s article will appear in normal fon...

On the single life again..by popular demand..mental preparation for marriage.

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Two points for my single sisters and brothers today. As you wait for Mr. or Mrs. Right, please recall that only Jesus Christ, the Son of God...
Friday, 17 August 2012

Christ After the Flagellation Contemplated by the Christian Soul

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This painting by Diego Velazquez, painted between 1626 and 1628, has been hanging in my bedroom since I arrived in London in June. Th...

Read this article

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Here is a snippet: It was President Franklin Roosevelt who said: “Continued dependence on [government support] induces a spiritual and mor...

Special Guest Post from JonathanCatholic

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Spouse of God, Continued In my post in the past week, I discussed the humility that God the Son truly assumed to Himself in becomin...
Thursday, 16 August 2012

My Home Town Makes DrudgeReport

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I know East Davenport like the back of my hand. My son organized his international cricket games in the park there. We used to eat at t...

An Advertisement from St. Louis--Modest Wedding Dresses-TAC Ladies, For YOU!

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This is from one of my readers. I thank tech_pilgrim for this link. My mom is from St. Louis and I love the city. Here is another g...

A repeated post ...for my fellow bloggers

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Saturday, 3 March 2012 A Catholic Carpe Diem A Catholic Carpe Diem, this post is for bloggers. And, I claim Fulton J. Sheen a...