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If I had money, which I do not, I would buy a house in Cobh, Eire. One of the most numinous places I have ever stayed is a small, lovely ...

Luke 1:39-45 39  Mary set out at that  time  and went as quickly as she could into the hill country to a town in Judah. 40  She ...

Because of recent discussions on line, a reminder from then Cardinal Ratzinger in this document, here incomplete, from 1990. CONGREGATI...

In these last few days before Christmas, make your heart into a tabernacle for Jesus. I would want my heart to be like a heart made of...

Revelation 19:7 Douay-Rheims  7  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give glory to him; for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his...

December 20th O Clavis David, et sceptrum domus Israel; qui aperis, et nemo claudit; claudis, et nemo aperit: veni, et educ vinctum de d...

Being in Cobh is an experience. One minute, the sky looks like a jewel box full of Oriental golds, oranges, and blues. The next minute, fog ...

And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. DR from ...

I saw these years ago in Rome........ Angels we have heard on high... These are all frescos........... The original church w...

We underestimate and under-use our Guardian Angels. Here is St. Bernard on my angel and his angel, and your angels: " For he is a ...

 December 19th O Radix Jesse, qui stas in signum populorum, super quem continebunt reges os suum, quem Gentes deprecabuntur: veni ad li...

Without priests, the Incarnate Christ is not in our midst.

The great mystic and theologian quotes Mary in her Magnificat: "He that is mighty has done great things for me." Bernard says t...

No one writes about the Blessed Virgin like the great Doctor of the Church, St. Bernard. In this work, "On the Visions of God"...

 December 18th O Adonai, et Dux domus Israel, qui Moysi in igne flammae rubi apparuisti, et ei in Sina legem dedisti: veni ad redimend...

Christmas is a busy time for most of you, and I am on retreat part of this week. Therefore, I shall save more hearty stuff on the life of pe...

I have met saints here. Not necessarily holy priests or nuns, but lay men and women living in the illuminative state. All of them are under ...

This blog would not exist without my readers. So, it is not my blog, but your blog. I am in a deer mood, as one can see this weekend. ...

       December 17th O Sapientia, quae ex ore Altissimi prodiisti, attingens a fine usque ad finem, fortiter suaviterque disp...