Good and Bad Fruit
Eighth Sunday Per Annum (C) March 3, 2019.
No good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit; for each...
Long Live Buckfast Abbey
I begin this reflection from the beautiful and prayerful grounds of Buckfast Abbey, not far from the coast at Brixham, where I have been...
The Collapse of the Rule of Law
Another day, and more mayhem, with no end in sight. Five police officers assassinated, others wounded, by snipers at a Black Lives Matter protest,...
The Catholic Dante 1265–1321
Dante Alighieri, one of the world’s greatest poets, was born in Florence, Italy, in 1265. Early in life he inherited the benefits of growing...
Cardinal Stephen Langton and the Magna Carta
(A very a propos and providential piece by Carl Sundell, as we all have our own truculent and tyrannical 'King Johns' sitting on our...
Biber’s Rosary Sonatas
We will post our Sunday musical selection a day early this week, as there is a Marian theme, fitting for this Saturday in August,...
A Lectio Divina on the Divine Mercy Prayer, “Eternal Father”
Today is the first day of the Divine Mercy Novena which can be found here.
Eternal Father,
God, You are eternal. Time is not something...
The sword of Damocles hangs over Europe
On July 13 1917 the three Portuguese children, Lucy, Francisco and Jacinta, heard from Virgin Mary “if people do not cease offending God, a...
Of Benedict and the Conservative Option
A blessed feast of Saint Benedict to all our readers! Although the whole monastic tradition predates him by several centuries, going back to such early...
Twelfth Sunday: Persevering to the End
Fear no one….Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father in heaven (Mt. 10: 26, 32).
Our Lord addresses...
