Category Archives: Catholicism
Weekend 535.1
Oblatis adquiesco salve honore Dei(1) Dinner with a Long Spoon by Francis X. Maier (The Catholic Thing) “We have the privilege and the obligation to make our country better through Continue Reading →
Lenten Rosary 2022
For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their God Continue Reading →
Post-Pandemic
(1) Exodus: Over 400 Churches Close in Britain in Past Decade (Breitbart) (1a) Slowly Eroding Christianity (The Catholic Thing) (1b) I&I/TIPP Poll: Is Religion Under Attack? A Majority Say Yes Continue Reading →
St Thomas Becket
It’s the Feast Day of St Thomas Becket. IF you can’t make it to Canterbury Cathedral you can always read A Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot.
Weekend Pilgrimage
“O God, may we dwell with You in the gathering of Your holy people, the Church.” I spent the weekend on pilgrimage in Walsingham at the Catholic National Shrine & Continue Reading →
All Saints
“God trains His people, His soldiers, for spiritual warfare. But as St. Paul taught us, we are not contending against human enemies but against the spirits of darkness that inspire Continue Reading →
30 Day Rosary
“I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.” – Apostles’ Creed Started Continue Reading →
Weekend 504.1
“lyke tru and fayghthefull crystyn pepyll this was restoryd to this churche by the wyche doyngis hyt schowyth that they dyd lyke good catholyke men.” – Sir Christopher Trychay I’m Continue Reading →
Weekend 502.1
This weekend I said the Rosary at Notre Dame de France in Leicester Square. The church features a chapel designed by Jean Cocteau and was included in 100 Churches 100 Continue Reading →
Weekend 500.0
“wher soo ever the devyll…doo see the syne of this crosse, he flees, he byddes not, he strykys not, he cannot hurte.” (1) Quotes from The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Continue Reading →
Weekend 498.0 (mirror of divine clarity or omniscience)
(1) Quotes from The Stripping of the Altars by Eamon Duffy: “Market forces dominated, a fact which permits some degree of confidence in using the resulting compilations as indicators of lay opinion. Continue Reading →
Line in the Sand
“The man who commits violence against his mother [i.e. the Holy Church] revolts against humanity.” – Louis VII I would rather be in a congregation of one than have the Continue Reading →
Weekend 491.0
“You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man (1) Continue Reading →
Weekend 490.0
(1) Becket’s bones return to Canterbury Cathedral (ACNS) (2) St Edmund Pennies by Peter E. Lewis (3) A quote from Tiny Churches by Dixe Wills: “It doesn’t help that he Continue Reading →