~The Three Prayers

The last quiet moment. AMDG

The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, stained glass by Mary Lowndes, after William Holman Hunt When my youngest daughter was a chi...

A few more pictures from last weekend. Taken on the Second Saturday of Advent. You can click on a picture once (not twice) and see a slides...

A few pictures from my weekend. Where I was. I spent most of my time when I wasn't walking around on that screened-in porch. Y...

Seven Sacraments, Rogier van der Weyden In this chapter Ms. Houselander begins by talking about one of my favorite subjects, the unity ...

More here . I think the last picture is the best. I love it when my gingko drops it's leaves and makes this beautiful yellow ca...

I have been trying to write something for several days, but just have not been able to find the time, and in a little over an hour, I'm ...

Just go some place quiet, close your eyes, and listen. And after that you might just look at the close up of Yo Yo Ma's left ha...

I did not have time to write anything about Reed of God  and I've been singing this all evening, so I thought I'd post it here. It...

This is the statue that stands outside the door that leads into the transept of my parish church. I stop and say a little prayer there...

This is a picture of my oldest and youngest (at the time) granddaughters about three years ago when the oldest was about 17. In Everlas...

Giotto: Nativity: Birth of Christ, Scrovegni Chapel All things were made by him; and without him was made nothing that was made. In h...

I must have listened to 15 or 20 different renditions of this song trying to find what I wanted. I resisted listening to this one that k...

Advent is the season of the seed; Christ loved this symbol of the seed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~   The Advent, the seed of the world's li...

Image  Source : Used by permission of the artist, Owen Swain, all rights reserved 2014 (may not be reproduced for personal or commercial u...

Listening this time: Alison Krauss, Yo Yo Ma, and Stephen Foster To see all the posts in this series, click HERE . AMDG

Fra Filippo Lippi, Annunciation The surrender that is asked of us includes complete and absolute trust; it must be like Our Lady's...

St. Elizabeth Working for the Poor, Marianne Stokes If I had to choose one image that embodied my idea of the perfect Advent, this wou...

As I was reading this morning in preparation for writing this post, I remembered why it's difficult to write about Caryll Houselander...

As a clear and untilled space thou madest the divine ear of corn to burst forth; hail, thou living table having space for the Bread of L...