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An Awareness of Angels

On my kitchen window stand the guardian angels.  They are window-transfer copies of beautiful mosaics from St...

An Awareness of Angels
posted on: 3 Mar, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

Unfashionable fasting

‘When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are...

Unfashionable fasting
posted on: 25 Feb, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

Earth’s crammed with heaven

At this time of the year, it is very tempting to live in nature’s future.  Desperate to find signs of Spring’s...

Earth’s crammed with heaven
posted on: 19 Feb, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

Whose company?

Psalm One is a little beatitude of its own, and begins, Happy indeed is the man who follows not the counsel of the...

Whose company?
posted on: 10 Feb, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

A Candle prayer for Candlemass

Today is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord (cf St Luke 2:22-40).  St Sophronius wrote of this feast,...

A Candle prayer for Candlemass
posted on: 2 Feb, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

8.5 million words of straw

Today we remember St Thomas Aquinas.  Now don’t panic.  I’m not about to explain his teleological...

8.5 million words of straw
posted on: 28 Jan, 2010 | author: Jane Critten

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