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  • Thanksgiving and the Uncongenial Family

    “If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger and much wilder world than we have ever known. And it is the whole effort of the typically modern person to escape from the street in which he lives.”  -G.K. Chesterton In the United States we are gearing…

  • Kitty, The Household Fairy II

    “The man standing in his own kitchen-garden, with fairyland opening at the gate, is the man with large ideas.”  G.K. Chesterton Kitty, The Household Fairy, has been at it again. Several weeks ago, we were expecting an important guest, the kind of guest, that before their arrival, you look about the home to catalog what might be lacking, in order to either…

  • Valiant Ordinary Deeds

    “Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised.” J.R.R. Tolkien There is much of life’s work which is hidden and goes unnoticed by the world; however, completing the often hidden duties of one’s state in life is work that the Church has always praised. St. Philip Neri (b. 1515- d. 1595) said: “He who bears what God sends…