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My Daily Bread was a popular book in the 1950s and 1960s. My parents had it on their bookshelf. It is a book of meditations on the spir...

"King Antiochus of God is revealed" a coin of the time of persecution Now I urge those who read this book not to be depressed ...

Pray for Europe. Today is the Feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, one of the patronesses of Europe. The other patrons of Europe are St. Ben...

There is a saying, perhaps apocryphal, which is attributed to St. John Bosco. He said that he thought that one out of four boys had a voc...

In every NO I attend in Ireland, about 25% of the congregation say some of the words of the Mass which are the words of the priests only. ...

Grace is not fairy dust. Grace is the life of God given to us in several ways. There are also many posts on grace. One can use the search ...

Thanks to Wiki for the Exeter Book First Page of the Poem The Wanderer Often the solitary one finds grace for himself the mercy of...

I wrote this last year and despite the signs of the times, this movement, will die in an age of barbarism. Even the revolutionaries got it w...

In case you did not notice, the perfection series is continuing...have fun reading and pondering. Be you therefore perfect, as also your h...

I think I realized that the perfection series will never end. Of course. Today, I am looking again at St. Catherine of Siena. Christ tells...

We are a month past mid-summer and moving towards Autumn. This movement of time happens whether we want it to do so or not.  Use your time w...

http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3919.htm Please watch this. It is important and moving. I cannot put the video on the blog, so us...

One more thought on this Monday from St. Catherine: remember, as written several times in the perfection series, one must be orthodox, th...

“I say that this tree has seven branches drooping to the earth, on which grow the flowers and leaves in the way I have told you. These ...