Thought for the Day – 20 January – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) Carrying our Cross – The Royal Road “There is only one way to become holy and to win Heaven.This is the way of the Cross.The Imitation of Christ contains some moving thoughts on the subject of the royal road of the […]
Thought for the Day – 20 January – Carrying our Cross – The Royal Road — AnaStpaul
By the hard side
of the shore,
abutments jutting out
into raging waves,
I paused,
an incessant gale buffeting
my puny frame.
Dark promontories
primed me through sea mist;
they caught my gaze,
my historic sense,
like the herring gulls circling,
riding the howling wind.
I sensed you there,
your sea-grey eyes
staring into nothing,
your soft sing-song voice
of the Borders,
ready to spoil me with sweets,
port and lemon clutched
in your wizened hand.
Somehow you were left
in this nebulous place,
our collective cries screaming
“mother! mother!” —
plaintive calls unheard
in an entangled realm of souls,
given over to the elements.
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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 – 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
I have been meat-free for seven years, since the end of December 2013. The journey has been a ridiculously amazing one filled with lots of eye-opening moments, and some that were not the easiest to get through. Giving up consuming the flesh of animals was something that I never thought I would have done, yet […]
Why I stopped eating animals and embraced more kindness — THE SOMETHING GUY
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