Etheldredasplace

http://supertradmum-etheldredasplace.blogspot.ie/2012/07/st-ann-pray-for-us.html A bit late, but one can say this novena at any time, a...

http://www.schlatter.org/Katrina/more%20destruction%201.htm A few days ago, I wrote on the fact that as people of memory, we know and...

Three male friends of mine in recent history have told me they are lost vocations . I tried to comfort their restless souls by expla...

This is on the side of the blog and has been posted recently.

I have over twenty posts for the past three days, so readers can catch up today.

As most of my readers know, I love birds and am a bird-watcher. But, I have noticed something very odd about central Dublin. Unlike in Lo...

Gets better as it goes along.....

“We have not government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our Constitu...

One of my dear friends, a widow from the States, is pursuing the road to perfection. When we see each other once a year, we discuss every...

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http://qz.com/107803/jane-austen-elbows-her-way-into-the-world-of-male-dominated-british-banknotes/

I have been reading and watching some of the comments coming out of WTD today, and I am astounded at the naivete of Americans who are lay...

Fr. Felix Cappello SJ   is the saint we are all praying to for Thomas Peters, at his father's request. Do not forget, please.

Just a bit of the sermon by the Pope today at the Shrine to Mary at Aparecida. Timely thoughts...three attitudes he is reminded of today. ...

"Man, your blog is good. A fountain of Orthodoxy."  Makes it all worthwhile....

The Pool of Fire and Ash The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold...

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...