Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire (Saint Catherine of Siena, +1380)
Year: 2021
The Horror, the Horror, of the FDA
Last Friday, the Biden administration permitted the use, sale and distribution of ‘fetal tissue’, which means the various body parts and organs of unborn children, a horrific practice that President Trump had made illegal. Biden’s act signifies, in the words of Pope John Paul II, yet further descent into a barbarism that we had thought[…]
The more one is consecrated to Mary, the more one is consecrated to Jesus. (Saint Louis de Montfort, +1716)
Catholics and Earth Day
Filtering what comes through ‘mainstream’ media is good for one’s mental and spiritual clarity these days. I try to avoid television, but caught a bit of the headlines last week sort of by accident (on CNN, I think it was). Joe Biden plans to cut ‘carbon emissions’ – that ill-defined hydra – by 30-50% by[…]
You shall obtain all you ask of me by the recitation of the Rosary (Our Lady to Blessed Alan de la Roche)
Humility Breaks the Pride of The Demon
“Those forty days, then, and forty nights, I lay prostrate before the LORD, because he had threatened to destroy you.” (Deuteronomy 9:25) Fr. Dominik Chmielewski SDB was one of several priests who had performed an exorcism on a girl. For many years the demon proved unyielding. Occasionally, a perfect storm of vituperation broke out against[…]
O Catholic faith, how solid, how strong you are! How deeply rooted, how firmly founded on a solid rock! Heaven and earth will pass away, but you can never pass away. From the beginning the whole world opposed you, but you mightily triumphed over everything. This is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith.[…]
St George, Faithful Servant of God and Invincible Martyr
On April 23rd, the universal Church celebrates with great joy the feast of St George. Besides being a saint of the early times of the Church St George has many devotees around the world. His life story as well as his cult are really a source of inspiration for all those who want to take[…]
Spaséñiye, sodélal (Salvation is created) – Pavel Tschesnokoff
Pavel Tschesnokoff – or Chesnekov – died of a heart attack, brought on by malnutrition, while standing in a Moscow bread line in Soviet Russia on March 14, 1944 at the age of 66. He was a master composer – over 500 choral works, with 400 of them sacred, quite a feat considering that ‘sacred’[…]
Civilisation – By the Skin of Our Teeth
I came across this truly wonder-ful 13-part series, Civilisation, first filmed in 1969, with Kenneth Clark, one of the world’s foremost art historians of the twentieth century. As he puts it in the very first line of the first episode, quoting the great Victorian artist and art critic Ruskin: Great nations write their autobiographies in[…]