Our Lady of Fatima I grew up with Fatima. In the late 1950's, emphasis upon the message of Fatima was rather intense in Catholic schools...

The Pope got a teddy bear for his birthday, and Don Georg, his secretary, said it was a "wonderful specimen". The Holy Father dona...

Thoughts on a snowy April day... . Starry, starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day, With eyes that kn...

Fr. Thomas Keating and the Centering Prayer phenomena. "Centering Prayer is neither Catholic nor prayer, yet it is offered at most ret...

The commemoration of Blessed Angela of Foligno, January 4th. "She married young, had several sons, then, around 1288, all in her immedi...

There is a distinction. The Apparition of the Madonna to St. Bernard wherein he nurses at her breast. It is a mystical moment in the life of...

Or the Feast of the Circumcision of the Lord. As well as the naming of Jesus. Some people think that it was a rite akin to Baptism, to purif...

Another favorite movie of mine...it's too bad there wasn't a "Monk's Story" that I could have gotten photos from. Pret...

Happy Feast of the Mother of God. And Happy New Year. Pictured, an icon of Our Lady of the Sign by a Terrance Nelson, painted for a priest i...

I read once where he would never have been a saint if he hadn't been martyred. Which reminds me of of Amy Welborn's comment on her ...

I'm stunned. I met this guy when I lived in Assisi - we shared a room at the Atonement Sisters, just up from the Basilica Santa Chiara. ...

I'm still trying to take a better photo of my Christmas tree - until then, this is the very best Christmas tree in the world, with a lov...

"One Word the Father spoke (Which is His Son) and this Word He speaks in eternal silence, and It is in silence It is heard by the soul....

And the people who have walked in darkness have seen a great light... For today a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord! A b...

A painting by Michael Sowa. (See, the guy has his computer!) "Alone on Christmas" (Actually, I'm not alone, a friend is here....

Pictured, "The Nino of St. John of the Cross." The Carmelite nuns of Lake Elmo first introduced me to devotion to the Child Jesus ...

This morning at vigils, I read the account of the martyrdom of St. Joseph Cho Yun-Ho, a Korean martyr from 1866. He died, after great tortur...

The mystery of the Bambino Jesu. Pictured, "St Francis receiving the stigmata", El Greco I looked everywhere for a painting of S...

I once read where the celebration of the Nativity was largely a Marian feast in the early centuries. In fact, Candlemas, once known simply a...