Saturday, October 31, 2015

My Prayers to the Saints on All Saints Day

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I've just been to All Saints' Day Vigil Mass. All Saints is one of my favourite solemnities (just as Halloween has always been one o...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

An Afterthought to Yesterday's Post

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The post that I wrote yesterday evening made a fair stab at expressing something that is very dear to me. Indeed, in the last few months I h...
Sunday, October 25, 2015

"Mary Treasured All These Things in Her Heart"-- an Essay on Matters Both Sacred and Secular

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(This post is dedicated to Mr. D. Newman, who I hope will appreciate at least some of it.) I think my favourite line from the entire Bibl...
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Friday, October 23, 2015

Poem on the Last of the Ballymun Towers Coming Down

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Ballymun was a high-rise housing estate built in the late sixties, dogged by social problems (drugs, vandalism, delinquency, etc.) and rebui...
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Wedding Bells

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I'd like to wish best wishes, and give assurances of my prayers, to a reader of this blog who is 'founding a domestic church' to...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Jury Service

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Today I served my third day of jury duty, on a case that will probably continue until the end of next week. Please pray to the Holy Spirit t...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

I Think I Have a Good Point

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A Facebook conversation yesterday, on the prospects for conservatism (and the definition thereof) led me to think about this piece I wrote o...
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