Etheldredasplace

I am saddened, again, by the abuse of the Eucharist in Adoration at Walsingham. This is the second time this has happened to my knowledge, a...

Again, during this past weekend in Walsingham, I had the unhappy experience of hearing nonsense and even magical thinking from charismatics...

I feel like I am preaching to the choir and cannot get through to those who should be reading and are not. I love my readers. I ge...

http://www.catholicbandita.com/fr-derek-lappe-says-gay-identity-not-acceptable-for-catholics/ Thanks to Catholic Bandita.

If you follow this blog, you would know that I come up here yearly. This is my third year here. God has a plan. I am writing about an...

I posted something about this great saint last year. Margaret Pole remains one of the most interesting saints of the horrible purge of Henry...

I have written many times on this blog on the necessity of teaching manners to the young ones. However, in the past week, I have developed...

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Those Catholics who are parents may understand some of the ideas on this brief posting. A friend of mine could not understand why purgato...

One should be able to cooperate with the graces of purification while on earth in order to avoid purgatory and have great merit for heaven. ...

For those who desire to follow the way God has set out for them, in the second purgation, there is no escaping the Dark Night of the Spir...

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his ...

A good friend of mine here in Walsingham has spectacular birds coming into her garden. I saw this one, the Greater Spotted Woodpecker. It...

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/10080015/Its-time-we-knew-the-real-gay-marriage-story.html a snippet and read the entire ...

Outside the Mass today, where there were beautifully behaved children, including little girls in white mantillas, I thought that the Trinity...

The greatest evils for the laity are the constant distractions and movements of modern life which stop the natural growth of the soul. Ju...

A charming bird practically walked with me to church this morning, on my way to a Latin Mass. It is the yellowhammer and absolutely a bird w...

The Christian Scientists either deny suffering, or avoid it. This is not the way of Christ or the teaching of the Church. Penances, mortifi...