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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…

  • Catholic Tradition in Advent

    “We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one’s life. But anyone who shrinks from that…

  • St. John Henry Newman and the Rosary

    St. John Henry Newman (b. 1801- d. 1890) was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary and her Psalter, the Holy Rosary. I recently read an essay written by Fr. Thomas McGovern on St. Newman’s devotion to Our Lady which is titled, Newman and Devotion to Our Lady. I found the section in the essay on Newman’s love of the Rosary…

  • Thanksgiving and the Uncongenial Family

    Today is the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States; and, for it, I am re-posting the following essay from last year with some edits. May you all have a beautiful Thanksgiving surrounded by your lovely uncongenial family. ~SCF “If we were tomorrow morning snowed up in the street in which we live, we should step suddenly into a much larger…

  • Flowers and Our Lady II

     “The Virgin may suitably be called a blooming rose. Just as the gentle rose is placed among thorns, So this gentle Virgin was surrounded by sorrow.”  ~St. Brigid The Blessed Virgin Mary is called The Flower of God, because of her Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, purity of life, and Divine motherhood.  I first wrote a post about Our Lady and her…