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- Orual on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday remaining after Epiphany (N.O.: 31st) 2024: “What stood out for me in Father’s sermon was that before Jesus said to the Apostles ‘O ye of little…”
- on 1-8 November: Indulgences for Praying for the Dead – HOW TO!: “So true on the pain. I think an apt parallel to Purgatory might be the burn unit in a hospital.…”
- on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “For my husband to get a good job and for our marriage and children.”
- on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Begging the Lord to hear my prayers for a number of family healings that are needed – my husband and…”
- on YOUR URGENT PRAYER REQUESTS: “Many prayers for Patrick, through the intercession of Servant of God , Priest, Marine Chaplain Fr Vincent R Capodanno Happy…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 34: ADORATION: ““In order to illumine, the candle must be consumed.” – St. Charles Borromeo”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 34: ADORATION: “Maybe time for the Knights Templars to make a comeback and protect the Church. Or, better yet, the Knights Hospitallers.”
- on WDTPRS – 31st Ordinary Sunday: Running and stumbling! Wherein Fr. Z rants.: “I agree. The old rite teaches us how to get to heaven. The most joyous sensible people I have met…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 34: ADORATION: “Please God, please care for and help free Fr. Thomas right away. Help your people in Nigeria, so many Christians…”
- on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday remaining after Epiphany (N.O.: 31st) 2024: “There were several good points made in the homily today. We visited the local Byzantine Catholic parish and Father gave…”
- on Rome 24/10 – Day 34: ADORATION: “I can barely look at Father Oyode’s face without becoming verklempt. Father, Protector, Man, Christian. Faith of our Fathers, holy…”
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#ASonnetADay – GUEST SONNET by Gerard Manley Hopkins – The Soldier
#ASonnetADay – GUEST SONNET by Gerard Manley Hopkins – The Soldier pic.twitter.com/ug2Rr0T4TL — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf (@fatherz) November 11, 2020
Posted in Poetry, Sonnet A Day
Tagged Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sonnet A Day, United States Marine Corps, USMC
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The Three Living and Three Dead and YOU! Also, wherein @fatherz has an idea for @jamesmacm
I read a truly fascinating post at the blog of the British Library for Digitised Manuscripts. It is about medieval trope of the Three Living and Three Dead. Given the time of year this is, it is appropriate and helpful! Excerpt: … Read More
I say that we are wound With mercy round and round
This year Good Friday fell on 25 March, and thus the Feast of the Annunciation was transferred to today, Monday after Sunday “in albis“, after the close of the Easter Octave. On 25 March, I posted the John Donne poem “Upon the … Read More
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
Fr. Hopkins (a Jesuit!) wrote this as a May offering for Mary in 1883, but I think it fits well today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. It is also a good poem for the day that is simultaneously Immaculate Conception … Read More
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Blessed Virgin Mary, Gerard Manley Hopkins, mater misericordiae, Poetry
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The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe
The Blessed Virgin compared to the Air we Breathe Gerard Manley Hopkins Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-flixed Snowflake; that ’s fairly mixed With, riddles, and is … Read More
Orual on Your Sunday Sermon Notes – 4th Sunday remaining after Epiphany (N.O.: 31st) 2024: “What stood out for me in Father’s sermon was that before Jesus said to the Apostles ‘O ye of little…”
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