On This Day

From the Spiritual Diary of Saint Paul of the Cross, Feast of Saint Thomas of Canterbury, 29 December 1720:
At prayer during the night I was peaceful, and also a little distracted. I felt a particular recollection in offering his most holy Life, Death and Passion, also in my petitions, especially for heretics. I had a [...]

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Reading Level

I found the above at Recapturing our Catholic Patrimony, whose level was College (Postgrad). As a Passionist, I was consoled to discover that my blog has a lower reading level. Here’s why:
No brother of this least Congregation may use in his preaching so lofty and elegant a style that it might render his message [...]

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Snowing in Schwarzenfeld

For some time now, I have been aware that there is a programme on my computer called Windows Movie Maker. This evening, as an alternative to spending Saturday Night at the Movies (which I confess I never do), I thought I’d spend some of Saturday night with Windows Movie Maker. The resulting production is dedicated [...]

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Evangelium

This evening we began a new season of Evangelium, Father Marcus Holden and Father Andrew Pinsent’s course of education in the Catholic Faith for adults. The programme is published by the Catholic Truth Society; have a look at it here. I wasn’t sure how many people would be there tonight, as we had already [...]

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Verbum Crucis

Today Pope Benedict spoke at the Wednesday Audience about Paulinus of Nola, one of my favourite poet-saints. He said: In his poetry and his vast correspondence, Paulinus expressed his deep faith and his love of the poor. His letters to such contemporary churchmen as Saints Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Martin of Tours, reflect his asceticism, [...]

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Father Ignatius Gibney

Last Sunday on RTE Radio’s Sunday Miscellany , there was a section of the programme entitled The Boy Named Ignatius by the Irish poet and physicist Iggy McGovern. Like a number of other boys of his generation, Iggy (Ignatius) McGovern was called after the renowned missioner and healer, Father Ignatius Gibney c.p., the [...]

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Students for Life

Today Sister Maureen and I met some students from Glasgow Caledonian University who would like to set up a pro-life society at the University. We were joined at the meeting by Kaye Smith, who is the universities officer (I think) for SPUC Scotland; Kaye spoke to us about the work done by Students for [...]

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Elizabeth Prout

The Norbertine Vocations blog has a post on Mother Mary Joseph of Jesus, the foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion. The Norbertines are now living at Saint Chad’s in Manchester where Mother Mary Joseph (Elizabeth Prout) and her first companions received the habit in 1851. The photograph shows the Prior with [...]

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Tota Pulchra Es

Tota puchra es, Maria, et macula originalis non est in te.
Thou art all fair, O Mary, and the original stain is not in thee.

This evening, Gareth, Father Justinian, Father Anthony and I attended an Advent Service at Scotus College. Being Advent and the Vigil of the Immaculate Conception and one of the celebrations marking the [...]

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Photo Album

I have just signed up for picasaweb.com – so if you are really bored, you might consider looking at one hundred and fifty-four photographs I took recently while visiting the Passionists in Germany. Click Slideshow at the top of the page to see them better. Warning: these are mostly pictures of buildings; I’m generally shy [...]

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