Weekend 557.1
“Let us not hesitate to give pride of place to silent daily prayer in the solitude of our room. In a perfect symbiosis with the cloisters of monasteries, it is Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Religion
Orval Abbey in Belgium
Stained glass windows in the chapel of the bishops, executed by Boquet, after the cartoons of Miss Margot Weemaes, who, for the same oratory, also made two frescoes. Discreetly historiated Continue Reading →
Feast of the Epiphany
(1) Examining the Adoration of the Magi (The Met)(2) Why Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh Matter (The Imaginative Conservative) (3) Look at the Revival: A poem by Theresa Lola (The National Continue Reading →
2022: Year-in-review
A couple of paragraphs to close out 2022. This is the year I said goodbye to London and put an exclamation point on Kingdom Hearts. I spent a night in Continue Reading →
Pope Benedict XVI (1927 – 2022)
VENERATION OF THE HOLY SHROUD, MEDITATION OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI, Fifth Sunday of Easter, 2 May 2010 (Vatican) Effectively, the Shroud was immersed in that profound darkness that was Continue Reading →
A Real Indiana Jones Quest
This post is dedicated to my Mom. What if I told you there was a priceless ancient work of art and relic that’s still in existence and just lost? It Continue Reading →
Feast Day of St Thomas Becket
“They found in him a model of opposition to royal tyranny.” — Thomas Becket murder and the making of a saint There are two very slim titles on Thomas Becket Continue Reading →
Catholicism in England
“This is your dowry, O Holy Virgin, wherefore, O Mary, may you rule over it.” One of my first daytrips in London was to Tyburn Convent. This was still at Continue Reading →
Where are the other nine?
This Thursday, October 13, is the Feast Day of Edward the Confessor. Mass this morning was at the Basilica of Saint John the Evangelist in Stamford, Connecticut. (1) Our Lady Continue Reading →