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 →
Category Archives: Catholicism
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 →
Night Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours
Divine Office is the official, formal prayer composed by the Church to pray throughout the day¹. Night Prayer is the office² prayed right before going to bed. The prayers are Continue Reading →
Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right
(1) Pope accepts resignation of Cardinal Robert Sarah (Vatican News) (2) Economists Warn We Can’t Keep Ignoring the National Debt Forever (FEE)
January 1, 2021
Hail, holy Queen, Mother of mercy,our life, our sweetness, and our hope.To you do we cry,poor banished children of Eve.To you do we send up our sighsmourning and weeping in Continue Reading →