the Birth of the Christ Child are renewed with prayers that proclaim Him “the Light of the World,” this event in Our Lord’s life was His “Offertory” – the prelude to His sufferings and redemptive work. It is also a day marked by the Church for the special blessing of candles. ...
Many people have been passing poems around on social media, lighting candles of gentleness and peace for one another in this dark night. I have taken comfort in these tender gestures, offered like balm in Gilead for the sin-sick soul. But I also have found myself browsing post-WWII poems ...
He told his emirs: “I don’t support the Tazik (Iranians). If it is necessary to pillage everyone, no one is more capable than myself. We are all pillagers; But if you expect pots of Ash after me and will beg for it, let me be harsh; And you should ponder [be afraid] that ...
Lighted candles remind us this is a house of prayer. The three elevations of arcade, gallery, and clerestory have balanced proportions rarely achieved in the Norman style. The predominant height of the arcades gives the vertical an edge—but not too much—over the horizontal. The recessed moldin...
The Hangings, candles, golden vessels — Will all be ash tomorrow? Will the walls stay standing? It shakes the soul to its foundation Losing what may seem like it has always been And so must always be. Paris, standing tall forever… till now. I will mourn And look for joyou...
for this Child that grows in me. The tree will bear the body of the Man, As I bear the Child. We will each be ready in our turn To do as the Holy One requires. We will, with the Holy One we bear, Be broken by the bearing, ...
Yet we must, now more than ever, light our candles in this dark and declare our fidelity to the dawn, whenever and however it may come. God desires a better world. However our follies may frustrate and obstruct divine hope, God is wiser than despair. “Behold,” says the Holy One, “...
After the final blackout, all these saints, now robed in white and carrying candles, converged toward the altar as an unseen narrator read from Revelation 7: After that I saw a huge number, impossible to count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, ...
Beyond the care of relatives, included in Williams's regular expenses were items essential to her embrace of Catholicism: she wrote checks regularly to Our Lady of Lourdes church for $20 worth of prayer candles, $4 for a Catholic pamphlet, $5 for prayers from the Mother Mary Missions, $30...