Haiku: Sprouts

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Sleep easy tonight
This realm assumes its greatness
Green sprouts in the wood

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Haiku: Blossom

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The affairs of men
Appalling shenanigans
First blossom appears

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Saint of the Day – 19 January – Saint Wulfstan (c 1008–1095) — AnaStpaul (Reblog)

Saint of the Day – 19 January – Saint Wulfstan (c 1008–1095) Bishop of Worcester from 1062 to 1095, Monk, Prior, a man of extreme holiness and penitence who was admired by all, he was a he was a man of iron will, immense charm and unworldly humility and piety. and suffered no luxury, preferring […]

Saint of the Day – 19 January – Saint Wulfstan (c 1008–1095) — AnaStpaul

Thought for the Day – 19 January – The Thirst for Justice — AnaStpaul (Reblog)

Thought for the Day – 19 January – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Thirst for Justice “Jesus commands us, in the Beatitudes, to seek justice, that is perfection in the fulfilment of our obligations to God, to ourselves and, to our neighbour.He commands us, to hunger and thirst for this justice, which is […]

Thought for the Day – 19 January – The Thirst for Justice — AnaStpaul

January 19, 1524 — Today’s Luther (Reblog)

Martin Luther writes to Lambert Thorn, an Augustinian monk, in the Netherlands. Thorn (or von Thorn) was probably the third of the trio of Augustinians who had been arrested at Antwerp and tried for heresy. The other two, Heinrich Voes (or Vos) and Johann Esch (or van den Esschen), had been burned at Brussels. Thorn […]

January 19, 1524 — Today’s Luther