Scents of apple and cinnamon fill my house.  The morning was heavy with storms, dark as night.  I savored sounds of rain while it laste...

"In truth we are not called once only, but many times; all through our life Christ is calling us. He called us first in Bap...

Cast yourself  into His arms and do not be afraid.   He will not drop you .  St. Augustine

 When it’s  God  Who is speaking...  the proper way to behave  is to imitate  someone who  has an irresistible  curiosity and who...

Some years ago, I undertook a little exercise of writing "Letters Home."  These were notes to various saints, talking of life in...

Sanctity does not consist in winning the esteem of men, but rather in striving only not to offend God. (St. Teresa of Avila) ...

Tonight seems a fine one for a carnival.  Here in the northern hemisphere, we sit poised at the edge of autumn; State Fairs are behind us,...

I often sang along with the radio in my preteens, long before most of you were born (really).  Never mind that I was a far from engagi...

"With Christians, a poetical view of things is a duty - we are bid to color all things with hues of faith, to see a divine mean...

"You are going to take the high seas of the world....  Have Jesus always for your Patron, His Cross for a mast  on which you mu...

Air is sultry, silky, weighted; sauna-hot with steam. The clock keeps up a steady tick and chimes into my dream. Grandson doesn'...

The golden age only comes to men   when they have,  if only for a moment,  forgotten gold.                                     ...

"As the day breaks we see more clearly in a mirror the spots and stains of our faces.  In the same way, as the inward light of the H...

I try to get my house in order from time to time.  Sometimes I have a bit of success, sometimes not so much.   During a recent "not...

I know some of us are watching for the Google Followers gadget to show back up and stay put on our blogs.  But even if mine never does, I...

Solved.  Yesterday's mystery:  solved.  At least that is my hope and verily, my dream. There are clues I have uncovered regarding t...

Anyone else having trouble with Blogger today?  My problem is with losing a large chunk of the sidebar.   Links to various blogs and sites...

"It is a great honor to you who are married that God, in His design to multiply souls who may praise and bless Him for all etern...

It was the ultimate comeback to childhood taunts.  I can picture myself now as I chanted it; my head thrown back, my nose stuck proudly up ...

I wanted nothing more than to hide out of sight this morning when I turned on my computer.  I discovered that the link-in I'd ALREADY ...