Something strange is happening – there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world[…]
Day: March 29, 2024
Good Friday and War
On the theme of suffering on this Good Friday, there is a pertinent and evocative reflection by James Bogle on OnePeterFive on the bombing of Japanese Catholicism – that is, the unnecessary destruction of Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945, three days after the incineration of Hiroshima on August 6th. We have written of the evils[…]
It is Done – A Good Friday Poem
IT IS DONE! Deep into His Passion; deep into my soul Now is the time! Commit to be whole Sad that it is, my will did part ‘Twas my beginning carried deep in my heart As sunrise came and sunset went Year after year, I lived Duty Lent Oh! How I strived to[…]
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 You exist within. There is no motion in You. You are here and now. All I know is motion and change, and so it is hard for me to wrap[…]
The Last Words of Pope Saint John Paul II
On this Holy Saturday, as come to the end of a long and difficult Lent for so many, these final messages of Pope Saint John Paul II, who, on that Holy Saturday of 2005, his life nearly at its own end, offered such a sublime example of ‘suffering well’, may offer some comfort and consolation:[…]
Good Friday Musical Meditations
Popule Meus, by Tomas Luis de Victoria, Christ’s lament from the Cross, ‘My People, what have I done to you, or in how have I offended you? Answer me!’ The Reproaches, also by Victoria, who wrote the music before it was imitated by Thorin and company, who sound like monks, and not the other way around:[…]