Saints Cloud, Corbinian and Hadrian
I quite like the sound of the name Saint Cloud, whom we celebrated yesterday - ethereal and heavenly, fitting for these last days of...
Our Lady’s Birthday
A blessed and joyful birthday to Mary - even if it be muted this year, falling as it does on a Sunday. This feast...
Dina Belanger’s Unrelenting Quest for Perfection
Blessed Dina Belanger is a home-grown Canadian saint - see our words on the martyr Andre Grasset from September 2nd - whom we commemorate...
Gregory the Great, a Pope for All Seasons
One of the great joys of history is reminiscing about the past, giving hope for the present; for history is ‘eschatological’, moving towards a...
Labour Day, Leisure and Life
Labour Day – a rather prosaic name for the last holiday of summer - why not, 'blow out day', or 'the end of leisure,...
The Legendary Hermit, Saints Giles, or Egidio
The life of Saint Giles, as many mediaeval saints, is steeped in legend, but what a following he had! Countless places, villages, cities, churches...
The Not so Hidden Life of Blessed John Juvenal Ancina
Saint Philip Neri, the founder of the Oratorians and the ‘second Apostle’ of Rome, recommended reading books beginning with ‘S’, that is, lives of...
The Baptist and Losing One’s Head
The celebration of the beheading of Saint John the Baptist - it was an expeditious entrance into heaven - is sort of a bookend...
Augustine’s Pilgrimage to Truth
A blessed feast of the great Saint Augustine (354-430), bishop and doctor of the Church, and one of the greatest theologians in her history,...
The Persevering Prayer of Monica
Monica is the patron saint of mothers - not least, those who pray for the conversion of their children, an integral part of the...
