Friday, February 27, 2026

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There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us. (Saint John Vianney)

Saint Robert of Newminster

There is only one saint in the calendar today, Saint Robert of Newminster, a twelfth century monk and abbot who died on this day in 1159.

The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life's different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on her course. (Saint Boniface, +754)

These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not towards persecutions and religious conflicts but towards a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation! (Pope...

An (Open) Letter to My Township

(Here, should it prove in any way useful, is a letter I wrote to my own local township on their decision to exhibit the 'pride' flag. Oddly, the motion to fly the actual flag...

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false. (Saint Justin, Martyr, +165)

Two Magnificats for Mary

On thisĀ feast of the Visitation, the last day of May, here are two musical renditions of the Magnificat, which Mary says - sings? - in today's Gospel: The first, J.S. Bach's magnificent rendering of Our...

Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, nevertheless they give up their lives to that little...

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