Weekend 597.0 (Remember the Joy of my Annunciation)
(1) The Mystery of Walsingham – Our Lady’s Holy House Foundation (EWTN) (2) 2024 Lenten Meditations (Third Sunday of Lent) When the Child Jesus with the voice of a young Continue Reading →
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Weekend 596.1
(1) A quote from Steeple Chasing: Around Britian by Church by Peter Ross: “Pluscarden Abbey was founded in 1230 by King Alexander II for monks of the Valliscaulian order. Between Continue Reading →
Weekend 596.0
Table 1: Top 20 most used stations in Great Britain, 2022-23 Station Entries/Exits Change from 2021-22 (% +) Liverpool Street 80,448,194 150 Paddington 59,182,926 148 Waterloo 57,789,780 40 London Bridge Continue Reading →
Weekend 595.0
(1) England’s Nazareth: Walsingham (The Imaginative Conservative) (1a) St. Augustine and J.R.R. Tolkien (The Imaginative Conservative) “To Newman, nineteenth-century liberalism and philosophic utilitarianism were the harbingers of a secular, modern Continue Reading →
Weekend 594.0
Once upon a time, I met a boy named Hugo Cabret. He lived in a train station… (1) FA Cup: ‘Newport v Man Utd not possible without my dad’ (BBC) Continue Reading →
Weekend 593.0 (My whole journey began the day I lost her…)
(1) Why Does Kingdom Hearts Remain So Beloved After 20 Years? (Wealth of Geeks)
Weekend 592.0
Young Wafflers and the “Culture of Commitment” (The Catholic Thing) “Heroes are born of commitment. Epics like Beowulf, the Odyssey, or The Lord of the Rings are built around the Continue Reading →
2023 Christmas Sabbatical
Ah, when to the heart of manWas it ever less than a treasonTo go with the drift of things,To yield with a grace to reason,And bow and accept the endOf Continue Reading →
Weekend 590.0
There’s no monument at Repentance Junction to mark the heroes of that last campaign but history will memorialize their sacrifice.
Weekend 589.0 (Rommer Treece)
“At some point in his studies the student of military history begins to perceive great events as climaxes to a series of ironies.” — W.J. Wood What’s cooking? I’m smack Continue Reading →