Etheldredasplace

Will blog on Friday, but  late in the day...sorry, but I shall be on the move. Pray for me as I am still ill. God's Fool. We are foo...

Gloria TV, thanks for the pick ups. An honor.....

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I have over 100 posts on the Doctors of the Church, including St. Albert, who has a feast day tomorrow. Just follow the labels, or tags. ...

Too late have I come to this state. Already winter is taking over. It is really cold. Chicago is a daunting place, too energetic for me. L...

Why are some Catholics still arguing about ORDINATIO SACERDOTALIS ? Do they not get it that this is a final statement, an infallible s...

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Tardy robin in an orange tree, waiting for snowflakes making sure winter has come to Illinois. It holds a noble head up to the wind, sens...

Returning to St. Ignatius seems a good thing to do today. Talking with someone revealed yet more confusion about the term discernment, and...

Two, if not the greatest evils, of our times are the mad pursuits of comfort and the avoidance of suffering at all costs. Immorality provid...

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“My God and all things.” What have the Illuminative State and the Unitive State have to do with Catholics in this time of coming tr...

The idiocy of so many Catholics these days is that they are arguing about the wrong issues. The famous phrase of “rearranging the deck ...

Kieran Kavanaugh, whose translation and notes I have been using in the past few weeks, clarifies St. John of the Cross’ poetry by clearl...

Many, many years ago, in a great on line college, I taught some of the works of St. Augustine for beginners. I covered Confessions and th...

I am concerned about the emergence of some new cults seemingly connected to the Church. I am concerned about some which at first do not...

It is snowing in Chicago today. The rain started earlier and now the flurries, which at first mingled with the rain, have won the battle f...

Someone asked me yesterday about the gift of discernment. Now, I have written about this several times on the blog. All Catholics who are b...

One needs St. John’s commentaries on his poetry. One needs all the help one can get in understanding the passive time of purgation. ...

Moving out of the Dark Night is noted by St. John of the Cross as the time of betrothal of the spiritual marriage. He is clear that the l...