Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Loving Your Home

Sometime contributor to these pages, Rebecca Jacobson - and her own Mum - have a delightful and quite lovely blog, lovingyourhome, which is well...

John Richmond Phillips RIP

John Richmond Phillips, the former longtime publisher and editor-in-chief of the now defunct farm journal Farm & Country has passed away. JP, as he...

Third Sunday: Nehemiah, Ezra and Restoring All Things

‘This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.’ For all the people wept when they heard the words...

The Power of the Holy Rosary

Today, Wednesday 7 October 2021, the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. In the silence of my heart Pope Francis’...

He Descended into Hell

(As we begin these latter days of Advent, awaiting the imminent arrival of our Saviour, it would do us well to ponder what indeed...

Tales of Canterbury

(A re-posting of my reflections, nearly two years ago now, of my pilgrimage to Canterbury, in light of today's memorial to one of her...

Revolution Now?

“Exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who is demoralised is unable to assess true information. The facts tell him nothing,...

Peter Damian’s Book of Gomorrah

St. Peter Damian (1007-1073) was a Benedictine monk and Cardinal Bishop whose principle legacy relevant to our time is his slim volume titled The...

A Grace-Filled Pentecost! Come Holy Ghost!

‘If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make...

Charles Tournemire and L’Orgue Mystique

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, France produced a number of famous organist-composers, such as Louis Vierne, Charles-Marie Widor, Marcel Dupré, Maurice...