2023 Advent Retreat at St. Joseph’s Abbey
“I am like a portable sanctuary filled with the real presence of God. Being a temple of God, how can I but see God everywhere I look? Within your temple, 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.
History Repeats
(1) The Pilgrimage of Grace (Historic UK) “The policies of Henry VIII did much to change the country and shape its future; those who resisted with the Pilgrimage of Grace Continue Reading →
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 →
Weekend 588.0
(1) Friday night vinyl is The Wall – Live in Berlin by Roger Waters. (2) Address to the Inhabitants of Bermuda, 6 September 1775 (National Archives) (3) The Secret Tube Continue Reading →
Weekend 587.0
More from Southampton Sketches by Elise M. Sandell: The bells of St. Michael’s, which have rung on through the centuries, have always been fascinating. A memory comes of a summer Continue Reading →
Our Lady of Walsingham
(1) Her Immaculate Majesty: The Queen of England (The Imaginative Conservative) “A moment,” she said, “and the dead shall revive; The giants are failing, the Saints are alive; I am Continue Reading →
Can’t keep my eyes from the circling skies.
(1) A quote from Naked Airport by Alastair Gordon “Everything inside the terminal—flight information board, lights, staircase, railings—was designed to be part of a total environment in which each part Continue Reading →
Weekend 586.0 (1.6 x 10-35 m)
(1) The Westminster Cathedral Newsletter (Fr Michael Donaghy) “There is, in many of us, the inclination to put on a show. We can easily wear a mask to hide our Continue Reading →
Weekend 585.1 (The Song of the Bells)
(1) Excerpt from Southampton Sketches by Elise M. Sandell CRESCENDO — From steeple to steeple, gable to gable, from pinnacle to battlement and high over the Bargate they were flung Continue Reading →