Calming the Storm

June 21, 2009

From the Gospel reading today, Mark 4:35-41, we get the wonderful image of the Calming of the Storm.
Yon Galilee
The Sea of Galillee is known as Lake Kinneret around and about Israel. Kinneret means ‘harp’; the lake is harp shaped, though the name is taken from an ancient town which was located on the northwest shore. [...]


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Sacred Heart, and a Year for Priests

June 19, 2009

I’m all set to write something and suddenly I cannot upload images because my computer crashes all the time!  That and evidently there are some java issues going on.  But that won’t get me down because I, of course, can cleverly post images via source codes.
EWTN’s site has a beautiful Act of Consecration to the [...]


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Corpus Christi

June 15, 2009

I cannot imagine a better way to spend Corpus Christi Sunday than with the Mass, a wonderful lunch with friends, a liesurely walk and a relaxing evening. Add to that a great time visiting over breakfast and it was a lovely day all around.
The image here is the Lamb of God; I’m liking [...]


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C.S. Lewis’ Pub

June 13, 2009

“Two of the pubs near Oxford which C.S. Lewis frequented were The Trout and The Six Bells.
Some of Lewis’s American readers had written him to inquire about his views on drinking alcoholic beverages. His response to them was in no uncertain terms:
‘I have always in my books been concerned simply to put forward [...]


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Wow.

June 12, 2009

Achbishop-designate Gregory Aymond, new Archbishop of New Orleans.
Mark 4:35-41View in: NAB NIV KJV NJB Vulg Greek35And he saith to them that day, when evening was come: Let us pass over to the other side.
36And sending away the multitude, they take him even as he was in the ship: and there were other ships [...]

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