~Lent is beginning and what better way to start this penitential season than with a bit of writing from St. Louis de Montfort and company on what it means to be a friend of the Cross. ~SCF “Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.” ~G.K. Chesterton I think we can…
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Candlemas Poem
“Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.” –Saint Francis de Sales Today, on the feast of Candlemas, I am re-posting a poem in which the English Catholic writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936) professed his love of, and need for, the Blessed Virgin Mary. The poem…
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Christmas
“I don’t know what to do! I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy. I am as giddy as a drunken man. A merry Christmas to every-body! A happy New Year to all the world! Hallo here! Whoop! Hallo!” ~ Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol by…
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Spiritual Hope
“The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.” ~G.K. Chesterton (b. 1874- d. 1936) Indeed. Fr. Peter Damien Fehlner (b. 1931- d. 2018) spoke of the difficulties of the Christian life, of the battle, in the following homily which was titled, Hope in Difficult Times:…
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A Poem in Advent
The following is a section of a T. S. Eliot poem for Advent. For me, the poem describes the search for God, which is apropos in Advent. God is found on Christmas morning in a manger; which is our home (G.K. Chesterton). Eliot wrote: A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless…
