Some friends of mine are building a church
Priory Church from Benedictine Sisters on Vimeo. ~
Category Archives: the Old Faith
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A small miracle: a wonderful old Catholic movie
Take a break. I’ve been talking on FB lately, and to anyone willing to listen, about how much I want a donkey. No, that’s not slang or a euphemism for anything. I mean an actual donkey. There are lots of donkeys around here, where they’re
Romance with sunflowers
Dear Lord, You know that I’m not very wealthy, but I know that you own absolutely everything. You own quasars. In fact, you own all the quasars. Even Richard Branston doesn’t own a quasar. Whereas I have three nice cats and quite a good collection
Seeking the Peaceable Kingdom: All of Catholic social teaching in one sentence
Today is the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, and the collect – the little prayer that summarizes the intentions for the day and the week to come – is probably one of the best summations I’ve seen of the Catholic teaching on how our civilization is
A dream of paradise: quam dilecta
There is one psalm that I keep coming back to again and again. Something about it simply describes the idea I have in my mind of paradise. I’m sure my mental image of heaven comes from medieval paintings like the one above. I had a