Song (To C. L.)
From collected poems, 1911
Song (To C. L.)
The corn is garnered, the swallows fly,
The leaves fall soft on their wintry bed.
There was a dream in...
Introduction to the Devout Life
31. Pastimes and recreations. To get out into the open air, be entertained by happy, friendly conversation, play the lute or some other musical...
Padre’s corner
Padre's corner
“These is so much bad in the best of us, And so much good in the worst of us, That it hardly behooves any...
Summa, Question 168: mirth.
Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologica Question 168, Article 4.
Whether there is a sin in lack of mirth?
I answer that, In human affairs whatever is against reason is a...
The Newfoundland Quarterly
Vol IV, No. 2 (October 1904)
The Old Coat of Arms at Placentia: The French Arms
Although the Fleur-de-Lis was from time immemorial used in ornamentation...
My beads
Born either in 1834 in Limerick, Ireland or Norfolk, Virginia, Fr. Ryan was described by a contemporary as having “an open, manly character.” He...
Canadians in arms pt 3
Camouflage
S. M. George Massey, C.M.S.C.
from B.M.A. “Blitz,” Vol. 1, No. 3
Brockville, ON: July 1942.
They tell us tales of camouflage,
The art of hiding things;
Of painted...
The Three Taps
Chapter 1. The Euthanasia Policy
In a sense, though, insurance was but an empirical science until the Indescribable Company made its appearance. The man who...
Easy Essays
Easy Essays
Sheed and Ward, 1936
Looking at property, Fr. Henry Carr, Superior of the Basilians, says:
Socialists and Communists battle against the unequal conditions of the poor.
Presumably they...
Canadians in arms pt 2
Shown here about to enter Campobasso’s Holy Rosary Church are Roman Catholic personnel of three Canadian infantry units. Fresh from the Italian front, where they had been relieved by soldiers of...
