Palm Sunday thoughts from a City Priest
Here are excerpts from Blog Of A City Priest’s reflection on Palm Sunday from last year: Long Gospel, huh? Why does the Church have to have all this lengthy pageantry?…
Category: christianity
“aiming to save mankind through a radiant display of exemplary living that would cure the world of its ills”
The opening paragraphs of Christopher Bollas’ “Meaning and Melancholia: Life in The Age of Bewilderment””: In Of Plymouth Plantation Governor Bradford (who arrived on the Mayflower) confronted the aftermath of a…
“The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars”, Melody S Gee
Yesterday’s Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets was “The Convert Wants Wounds, Not Scars” About the Poem, Melody S Gee comments: “This is part of The Convert, a series…
1 September 1917: An Orangeman praises Fr Willie Doyle — from the “Remembering Fr Willie Doyle SJ” blog
I while back I marked the feast day of St Vincent de Paul with Fr Willie Doyle, an Irish Jesuit chaplain in World War I killed in the Battle of…
Frank La Rocca: A contemporary composer on the countercultural duty of sacred music
Recently I discovered the contemporary composer Frank LaRocca. From his online bio: Trained as an academic modernist during his degree studies at Yale and University of California, Berkeley, La Rocca…
Patron saint of “difficult marriages and disappointing children”: August 27th, the Feast of St Monica
It is the feast of St Monica, mother of St Augustine and patron saint of, inter alia, “difficult marriages; disappointing children; victims of adultery or unfaithfulness; victims of (verbal) abuse;…
August 27th, Feast of St David Lewis, martyr and the last Welsh Jesuit for 322 years
This is the Feast of St David Lewis, a Jesuit priest and martyr killed in 1679 for being a Catholic priest: David Lewis was born in Abergavenny in the year…
For Feast of the Queenship of Mary: Salve Regina, sung by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos
For a previous post featuring these monks, see here.
Séamus Sweeney 