Star of My Heart

"Star of my heart, I follow from afar.
Sweet Love on high, lead on where shepherds are,
Where time is not, and only dreamers are.
Star from of old, the Magi-Kings are dead
And a foolish Saxon seeks the manger-bed.
O lead me to Jehovah's Child
Across this dreamland lone and wild,
Then will I speak this prayer unsaid,
And kiss His little haloed head —
"My star and I, we love thee, little Child."
Except the Christ be born again to-night
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see His kingdom bright.
Stars of all hearts, lead onward thro' the night
Past death-black deserts, doubts without a name,
Past hills of pain and mountains of new sin
To that far sky where mystic births begin,
Where dreaming ears the angel-song shall win.
Our Christmas shall be rare at dawning there,
And each shall find his brother fair,
Like a little child within:
All hearts of the earth shall find new birth
And wake, no more to sin."

--Vachel Lindsay

Hodie Christus natus est! A blessed Christmas to you and to those you love, dear readers.

Where?

Where have all the young Catholics gone? Please follow this link: share

Thank you, George.

Prepare in silence

Please follow this link to a very fine post: http://www.6stonejars.com/index.cfm/2009/12/23/The-Still-of-the-Silence

Thank you, Anthony Buono.

The crib of Love

"And this shall be a sign unto you. You shall find the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger."

--Saint Luke, 2:12


"Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another."

--Saint John, 4:11.

The Feast of Saint Thomas

"Let us also go and die with Him." (Saint John, 11:15)

"Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the place of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe" (Saint John, 20:25)

"My Lord and my God !" (Saint John, 20:29)

Saint Thomas, pray for us.

O Adonai

Please follow this link: http://singulare-ingenium.blogspot.com/2009/12/o-adonai.html

(Thank you, Patricius.)

Good and evil

Eomer said, 'How is a man to judge what to do in such times?' 'As he has ever judged,' said Aragorn. 'Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear, nor are they one thing among Elves and another among Men. It is a man's part to discern them, as much in the Golden Wood as in his own house.'"

--J.R.R. Tolkien in The Two Towers