Thought for the Day – 27 August – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) Evening Prayer “A page in the story of our lives is closed.For all we know, it may be our last.Sleep is a symbol of death.How can we be certain that this night will not be our last? A large number of […]
Thought for the Day – 27 August – Evening Prayer — AnaStpaul
Thought for the Day – 24 January – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) Following Jesus, the Divine Model “Jesus is the Divine Model, Whom we ought to follow and imitate.In Him, the virtues possess both the infinite splendour of the Divinity and the gentle appeal of glorified Humanity.Jesus does not dazzle us with His […]
Thought for the Day – 24 January – Following Jesus, the Divine Model — AnaStpaul
Dankness of the day
A moment’s contemplation
Stillness in the mind
Copyright Francis 2022
I first encountered you in ceilings,
in wallpaper patterns, their imagined shapes;
lying on beds with open books, with time,
with The Planets Suite as background.
You, who watched erstwhile friends
playing and laughing, cycling madly
along lanes of cow parsley and smoke,
through an old peeling window frame.
You are the same person still — alone;
free, yet unheard and misunderstood,
unwilling to think, or bend like the rest,
still staring but from double glazed glass,
thoughts blowing among trees,
within the space of this room
Copyright Francis 2021
Thought for the Day – 28 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) Scandal The Gospel contains a frightening condemnation of those who give scandal.“Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it were better for him to have a great millstone hung around his neck and to be […]
Thought for the Day – 28 December – Scandal — AnaStpaul
The Elloe Recorder 