~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 ...

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

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 ...