Fear of Touch
The angels wonder that, when we greet one another at Mass, we fear to touch; yet we feel no fear when we receive the God of All Creation.
Month: April 2025
A Prayer of St. Anselm of Canterbury
O my God, teach my heart where and how to seek You, where and how to find You. You are my God and You are my all and I have never seen You. You have made me and...
John 19:41
Spinning in the dry darkness, in the scent of ages and stone cut new touched by linen and bitterness, an olive pressed by thew and bone white dress with iron st...
Golgotha
Golgotha Of the wood, an abrading kiss; of the iron, a spear; of the empty, an edifice; of the heavens, a tear. Of the nails, a piercing bliss; of the sheep, a ...
Words of a Saint – St. Benedict Joseph Labre
St. Benedict Joseph Labre – Patron Saint of of Unmarried men (bachelors), rejects, mental illness, mentally ill people, insanity, beggars, hobos, the home...
I would be just a thimbleful
I would be just a thimbleful to one who counts humility; or even less to one who seeks a sea of docibility. To him who gathers deeds of saints and their venerab...
Words of a Saint – St. Gemma Galgani
St. Gemma Galgani, Mystic and Stigmatist If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love. If I saw the gates of h...
Poor in Spirit
Poor in Spirit Is it enough to turn from the world, rejecting the styles and movements of things that are but shadows that we use to fill our homes, adorn our b...
Go, sweep your house — St. Francis de Paola
Go, sweep your house, that is, your conscience, and be a good Christian. The recollection of injury is…a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. Be lovers of peace...
