Thought for the Day – 24 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Holy Family – Jesus “We have in the Holy Family, the highest possible models of perfection – Jesus, Mary and Joseph.As God, Jesus is essentially holy.By means of the Hypostatic Union, this sanctity is transmitted also to His human nature.The […]
Thought for the Day – 24 December – The Holy Family – Jesus — AnaStpaul
Christmas vacation
Lighting the glorious day
Old ghosts exorcised
Copyright Francis 2020
Saint of the Day – 23 December – Saint Servulus (Died c 590) Layman, Beggar, paralysed by Palsy from birth, – born in the 6th century in Rome, Italy and died in c 590 of natural causes. Saint Servulus was a perfect model of submission to the divine Will; it would be difficult to offer […]
Saint of the Day – 23 December – Saint Servulus (Died c 590) — AnaStpaul
I never realised
but you were speaking to me, softly,
for all those years.
The shyness holding me back,
such constraints of my nativity,
were merely the mystery of your method,
the reason for my being.
And as the child began to learn
through the paucity of upbringing,
the ridicule of others
and the darkness of doubt,
finally he arrived
like a flower in its season:
His truth was always within,
nectar for those who may listen.
Copyright Francis 2020
Some of you may have read this story before. It is included in an anthology of winning stories and poetry from twelve authors who took part in Stevie Turner’s ‘Share Your Short Story’ monthly writing competition, which ran from October 2017 to February 2020 on Stevie’s WordPress blog. All royalties from book sales are donated […]
A Christmas Story — Darlene Foster’s Blog
