Singulare Ingenium

Thanks to Reverend Father Tim Finigan I have discovered a wonderful blog by Patricius, pictured above. It is: http://singulare-ingenium.blogspot.com/ Please follow this link to read about the "O" antiphons and Tolkien--wondrous fair!

Brave and true

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with his soul encourages another person to be brave and true.”

--Charles Dickens

A friend

"No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy."

--Saint Alfred of Rievaulx

The Snowman

“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”

--Sir Walter Scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1Ln-ctn5E

Take Heaven

"I salute you!
There is nothing I can give you which you have not;
but there is much, that, while I cannot give, you can take. No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in it today.
Take Heaven. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present instant.
Take Peace. The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet, within our reach, is joy.
Take Joy. And so . . . I greet you, with the prayer that for you,
now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away."

--Fra Giovanni, early Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects (A.D. 1513)

Gaudete Sunday

Rejoice! Christmas is near!

Saint Lucy

Seven years ago today, on her feast day, Saint Lucy answered my prayers and through her intercession my children and I now live in the home which we call "Rivendell"; a photograph of Saint Lucy's shrine in Syracuse has its place of honor on a little table near our front door in thanksgiving for this great favor.

It is also my youngest sister Kris's birthday: through Saint Lucy's intercession, she was cured of hemorrhage in her eye when she was only a few days old. Happy birthday, Kris!

Saint Lucy, thank you; and please pray for us.