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  • The Church Militant in Action

    “Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy…

  • Grotto Developments and the Immaculate Heart of Mary

    And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart. Luke 2:51 I have been relaying the ongoing developments in the building of a backyard grotto in New Jersey. The statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which will be the centerpiece of the grotto, had to undergo…

  • Grotto Update

     “You shall receive me when the clouds are high  With evening and the sheep attain the fold.  This is the faith that I have held and hold,  And this is that in which I mean to die.”   Hilaire Belloc   I have been relaying to you* the story of the Marian grotto which is being built in a New Jersey…

  • Grotto Work Continues in New Jersey

    On July the eleventh, I posted about a grotto that was being built in the backyard of a home in New Jersey (see post here). Today, there is an update on the project: the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that will be the central point of the grotto, has been power washed and sanded. Next, it will be painted. Apparently…