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Posted on September 6, 2019September 6, 2019

“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…

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Posted on September 6, 2019

“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…

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Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019

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…

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Posted on August 27, 2019August 25, 2019

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;…

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Posted on August 27, 2019August 25, 2019

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…

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Posted on August 22, 2019

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.

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Posted on August 19, 2019

Biblical advertisting: Proverbs 11:1 in Bunbeg

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…

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Posted on August 4, 2019

Steven D Greydanus on the subervise non-subversiveness of Phineas and Ferb

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…

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