Today’s post is a 2018 article written by Patricia Enk from the blog, Illumina, Domine. This interesting article discusses a search by the Catholic writer Paul Badde for a long-hidden icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary which is tucked away in a cloistered convent in Rome. There is little known of this icon: there are no reprints of it for…
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Mary, The Divine Shepherdess
Today, the Church honors the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of Our Lady, Mother of the Divine Shepherd. Our Lady, herself, has been known as the Divine Shepherdess, aka, La Divina Pastora, and La Divine Bergère. There have been numerous images of Our Lady which depict her shepherding the flock of Christ. This morning, I looked about for a good…
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Marian Lauds in May
The month of the Blessed Virgin Mary continues; and, today, I am posting a picture (above) which was sent to us from an Irish lass who dwells in the Ohio Valley. It is a picture of her May Mary altar: a tangible laud to Our Lady for the month of May. And, as another laud to the Blessed Virgin Mary, I…
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Sparrows and the Loving Eye of God
“The object of my school is to is to show how many extraordinary things even a lazy and ordinary man may see if he can spur himself to the single activity of seeing.” — G. K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles The outdoor birds keep the residents of this domicile entertained with their buoyant tunes and backyard games. Birdwatching is fun. Just…
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Joy in Spring
Spring Nothing is so beautiful as Spring – When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all…
