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  • The Cross in Lent

    ~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…

  • The Martyrdom of Mary

    Crying, my Little One, Footsore and Weary by Christina Rossetti, 1893: Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?   Fall asleep, pretty one, warm on my shoulder: I must tramp on through the winter night dreary,   While the snow falls on me colder and colder. You are my one, and I have not another;   Sleep soft, my darling,…

  • St. Francis: The Man, The Saint

    “The transition from the good man to the saint is a sort of revolution; by which one for whom all things illustrate and illuminate God becomes one for whom God illustrates and illuminates all things.”  ― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Francis of Assisi I was writing this morning about St. Francis, who the Church honors today, when I received a phone call from…