Faithful Friday: Julia Ledochowska

Julia Ledochowska always encouraged her students and nuns to always smile and look to Jesus as “flowers to the sun.” 
By T.K. Wilson

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Foul Feelings

My conscience carries cancerous care.
A horribly heavy load my heart does bear…
By Jordan Ellis Christensen

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Cantate Domino!

Singing the Divine Office is accessible to all Christians; it entails little more than chanting some Psalms. It can also let in anyone who cares on the secret of Catholic accessories: the smells and bells exist because we are souls and bodies…
By Cordelia Fitzgerald

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Time

Time marches ever on,

Moving on silent feet,

Sometimes running, sometimes walking,

Quiet as a thief…
By Sarah Losardo

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Easter Snap

On Easter Monday even an undiscovered egg

Seems to shiver under the blue-streaked sky at dawn…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall

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Highway to Heaven

Christ breaks the constraints of travel between the spheres; from death to life He rises, from the netherworld to the world: the scene of God’s salvation…
By Cordelia Fitzgerald

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A Few Spring Poems

The Lion-Winds of March

Wild winds now rise to a Valkyrie’s strength

And dark clouds roar to the hammer of Thor…
By Lawrence Hall

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Faithful Friday: St. Joseph the Hymnographer

Saint Joseph the Hymnographer (c. 816–886 AD) stands as one of the most prolific and influential liturgical poets in the history of the Eastern Christian tradition…
by Lyn Wilson

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Holy Week

We make a muddle of Lent and Holy Week

Because we’ve made a muddle of our lives…
By Lawrence “Mack in Texas” Hall

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Corpus Christi

“I haven’t found one open church. It makes me sad—it’s all gone, everything’s gone. Where is God? Where is Jesus? I’m looking for them everywhere, but I can’t find them…”
By Mary M. Isaacs

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Get Used To Disappointment

I think most people in the First Century were disappointed with Jesus, even His followers. That was part of the point of His ministry on Earth: to overturn expectations…
By Ian Wilson

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Faithful Friday – St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne

One ordinary summer night, August 31, to be precise, Cuthbert saw angels descend from the heavens, receiving a bright soul. The next day he learned of the passing of St. Aiden, Bishop of Lindisfarne and reasoned it was his spirit he saw being carried away to heaven. Within the next year, Cuthbert became a novice monk at Melrose Abbey, impressing everyone with his joyful demeanor and natural humility…
By T.K. Wilson

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Day of St. Patrick

For history and myth make up the structure

Of a people strong, brave, and true

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Faithful Friday – Gerald of Mayo

But there was a need in Ireland. With so few available priests, the Irish people had little access to the sacraments. In order to fill this gap, St. Gerald was made a bishop to ordain more priests and get the sacraments to more people…
By Ian Wilson

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A Few Winter Poems

The cold has gotten old without Christmas trees
And little lights in all their vestmental tints
No longer counterpoint the dark northern breeze…
By Lawrence, “Mack in Texas” Hall

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He’s Not A Monster

I will start by saying the Beast is not a monster; the Beast is you and I…
By Ian Wilson

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Faithful Friday – St. Bilfrid of Lindisfarne

Venerated for his personal holiness and artistic devotion to the church, St. Bilfrid of Lindisfarne was a man of great dedication and talent. He was a man that those of us who engage in artistic endeavors can emulate…
By Lyn Wilson

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Faithful Friday: Herculanus of Perugia

By Lyn Wilson … St. Herculanus, whose feast days are both November 7 and March 1, is Patron Saint of Perugia, Italy. His life story is a fact decorated by a bit of fantasy. He was said to have been sent to Perugia from Syria to evangelize sometime in the earlier half of the 6th century. 

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