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?…
Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
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?…
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…
Yesterday was the Feast of the Ascension, so this is late. I guess it is still May 30th in California and points West (up to the International Date Line) though:…
Joe Heaney was a sean-nos singer born just over one hundred years ago near Carna in Connemara. He sang in both Irish and English, and would contribute to John Cage’s…
It is St Helen’s day, commemorating the mother of the Emperor Constantine whose mission to recover the cross on which Christ was killed inspired Evelyn Waugh’s Helena. Recent I visited…
I have posted Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s meditations on the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, along with Haydn’s Seven Last Words Here is the Introduction “Father, forgive them,…
From Fr Robert Hugh Benson’s Seven Last Words: THE FIFTH WORD I thirst. Our Lord continues to reveal His own condition, since He, after all, is the key to all…