~The Three Prayers

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

In December of 2012, the first Advent of this blog, I wrote this post about Caryll Houselander's The Reed of God . While I was not ...

In every life of every Christian there are countless resurrections--just as there are always many times when every Christian is buried with ...

Mary remained silent, as so often before she had remained silent, in the crowd; but now Jesus shared her silence. Jesus and Mary alone were ...

To His enemies this seems to be the hour of their triumph and Christ’s defeat, but in fact it is the supreme hour of His triumph. Now when H...

To those who stood by it must indeed have seemed now that Christ was separated from other men. . . . That was how things seemed to be. Bu...

Not long ago Christ had revealed His glory upon a Mountain. He had gone up with his disciples to Mount Tabor, and there shown them His splen...

In this meditation, Caryll Houselander writes about the many people who are following Jesus on the way to Calvary: those who hate him, those...

In her meditation on this station, Caryll Houselander asks why Jesus, Who has from the beginning of His life accepted whatever help men have...

Christ is down in the dust. This second fall is harder than the first; He is nearer the end of His tether now, more dependent than before on...

Until someone comes to reveal the secret of Christ indwelling the sufferer's soul to him, he cannot see any purpose in his pain. There i...