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Novena Prayers to Saint Joseph

March 10th - or 11th, if you want to end on the Solemnity itself - is the day to begin the novena to Saint Joseph, - but you may begin anytime, and today is...

Allegri’s Miserere and Mozart’s Memory

As we begin the Lenten pilgrimage on this first Sunday, a fitting help to our deovtion is Allegri's Miserere, his unsurpassed musical setting of Psalm 51, recited in Lauds (Morning Prayer) every Friday. Composed...

Eliot’s Ash Wednesday

T.S. Eliot published his poem Ash Wednesday in 1930, after he had composed during his conversion to Anglicanism (in 1927). The theme is, fittingly, the soul in its journey to find God, with allusions...

Letter to the Editor: Climate Insanity

(What follows is an open letter to the editor of various local papers where I live, and I thought it would do for a wider audience, with the author's permission. What's in the works...

What Was It All About?

Many suspected as much, that the mRNA 'vaccines' were not quite as 'safe and effective', as they were touted to be, as the sign still says at the front of our local care home...

The Planets Align

This evening, February 20th, and again on February 28th, seven of the planets align in the night sky, a rare event, the official term for which is syzygy. See the link for where you...

Of Flags and Dominions

Today marks the 60th anniversary of our adoption, back in 1965 under Lester B. Pearson, of a the ‘maple leaf’ as our national flag, replacing the richer symbolism of the Canadian Red Ensign. Whatever...

Jovinus and Faustinus, and All the Single People

Jovinus and Faustinus were two noble brothers, martyred together in the early days of the Church, in about 120 A.D, under Emperor Hadrian, after whom the wall separating England from Scotland was named. As...

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