Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
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…
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…
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…
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;…
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 a previous post featuring these monks, see here.
In Bunbeg, Co. Donegal (officially the smallest fishing harbour in Ireland), one sees the following written in old Gaelic script (note the “overdot” or ponc séimhithe used to indicate a…
On the website of the ever-interesting Steven D Greydanus there is a piece on Phineas and Ferb, one of the many many children’s shows which are also calculated to appeal…
Séamus Sweeney 