Quotes Worth Contemplating for the Feast of Sts. Adam and Eve (Christmas Eve) According to Dom Mary Eugene Boylan, self-sufficiency is the death of love: [T]he waywardness of weakness and the faults of frailty can be forgiven by love precisely … Continue reading
Ye modern throng, whose tinsel joys reveal The strain’d and labour’d ecstasies you feel; Whose empty pastimes hold a spurious bliss, And feebly copy brighter days than this: Your clumsy games suspend, and pause to hear Of genuine mirth, and … Continue reading
Adapted from Sr. Marie Gabrielle’s talk, “A Thousand Times Happy” Fear sabotages happiness as few other things can. Happiness is a contentment that we experience in the contemplation of the good, the true, the beautiful. That is Aristotle’s definition that … Continue reading
As the Halloween decorations in American stores make way for those of Christmas (although in many such places the two have already co-existed happily in different aisles), here and there yet remain retail locales — especially such as sell turkeys … Continue reading
Quotes Worth Contemplating for the Feast of St. Rose Philippine Duschesne No one in his right mind sets out to grow mealy apples. If you plant an apple tree and take the time to fertilize it, prune it, keep the … Continue reading
Excerpted from Sr. Marie Gabrielle’s talk, “A Thousand Times Happy” The expression “a thousand times happy” might not be immediately familiar to you out of context, so allow me to put it in context: “Happy, a thousand times happy, is … Continue reading
Halloween’s Jack O’Lanterns may be gone, and the last Trick-or-Treater long since consumed his last bit of candy. But the “thinness of the veil between the worlds” of which innumerable writers speak at this time of year — and with … Continue reading
May heads of nations fear thy name And spread thy honor through their lands, Our nation’s laws, our arts proclaim The beauty of thy just commands. Let kings the crown and scepter hold As pledge of their supremacy; And thou … Continue reading
Some How-To Tips for Would-Be Spiritual Pyromaniacs There are many analogies that can be used to describe an apostle. An apostle can be likened to a farmer who sows the seeds of the Faith. Or a fisherman. A hunter. A … Continue reading
… that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the … Continue reading
“What is the point of working on a jigsaw puzzle? It gets taken apart as soon as it’s finished. Not only is nothing accomplished, but many hours are spent in accomplishing this nothing!” As incontestable as such logic would seem … Continue reading
A gleeful announcement to the world about the birth of his first son turned into a strange “X-frenzy” when former-actor-turned-farmer, Brandon “Bug” Hall, engaged with some detractors on the social media platform. Newsweek magazine took an interest and wrote up … Continue reading
Once in a saintly passion I cried with desperate grief, “O Lord, my heart is black with guile, Of sinners I am chief.” Then stooped my guardian angel And whispered from behind, “Vanity, my little man, You’re nothing of the … Continue reading
Quotes Worth Contemplating for September 15 Upon receiving the command of the Most High to offer his only son as a holocaust, Abraham rose up in the night, saddled his donkey, took two servants and Isaac, and set out for … Continue reading
I like the hunting of the hare; It brings me, day to day, The memory of old days as fair, With dead men past away. To these, as homeward still I ply And pass the churchyard gate Where all are … Continue reading
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