Spotted in a combox at Insight Scoop: (emphasis added by me) “Only the other day I saw in an excellent weekly paper of Puritan tone this remark, that Christianity when stripped of its armour of dogma (as who should speak of a man stripped of his armour of bones), turned out to be nothing but… Continue reading The dismal illumination of the Inner Light
Peony’s Seven Quick Takes
Seven Quick Takes is being hosted at Betty Beguiles this week. 1. I love coffee. I love cake. I love coffee and cake. I love coffeecake. I love coffee and coffeecake even more when I’m enjoying it with friends. And doesn’t coffee and cake taste even better when eaten off cute dishes? 2. I never… Continue reading Peony’s Seven Quick Takes
Fr Jacques Philippe on Interior Prayer
For the Staple-to-Forehead file: The life of prayer is much deeper than the intelligence or the senses can perceive. Even when prayer is poor and distracted, provided that it is made with sincerity and faith, God can communicate secretly with the soul. He puts into it the treasures of light and the power of peace… Continue reading Fr Jacques Philippe on Interior Prayer
Primer mixing: pound-foolish?
The Beltway Mosses are happily settling into our new home (which needs a nickname, I suppose). My husband’s after me to hang pictures, but there are two rooms I want to paint before I hang pictures. So it’s off to Lowe’s this morning, coupons and paint chips in hand. Here’s my question: I have about… Continue reading Primer mixing: pound-foolish?
Times Are Changing
The other day I accompanied my five youngest children and three of the the neighborhood children along with their mother to the park. During a break in the shade, the 11-year-old boy looked at my left hand and asked “you’re married?!?” I stared at him blankly for a second because I never had a child… Continue reading Times Are Changing
‘Manners Makyth Man’
When deviancy from the ethos becomes the ethos, calling virtue bourgeois, the servant is deprived of his royal dignity as a child of God, and the king is absolved of his duty to revere those he governs. —Father Rutler
16 Years Ago Today…
I know many of you prayed hard for us, and I can honestly said God is listening and has granted many, many graces. This has been a difficult year and this story isn’t over. Time and God will tell what’s in store. I’ve learned a lot about myself, marriage and relationships, turning to God and… Continue reading 16 Years Ago Today…
So Harry Potter, again.
Priests will soon be ‘inundated’ with exorcism requests, asserts author “Soft forms of occultism are like Wicca and New Age,” he explained, adding that “Harry Potter contributes to that with over 400 million books being sold.” The popular book series, he claimed, has helped educate “younger generations in the language and the symbolism of the… Continue reading So Harry Potter, again.