Here's another picture of my newest patron saint for you to enjoy. Here she is depicted about to be executed with her executioners. I...

My newest patron saint I here present - Blessed Margaret Plantagenet-Pole, Countess of Salisbury. The very last of the Plantagenet English ...

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I am so proud of my parish church. Posting this today after I saw this picture on the Roving Medievalist and was shocked to see the very s...

Ok, I know I promised these photos from the Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica , but this has been delayed by computer troubles which necessitated...

photo credit "I saw the Lord Jesus tied to a pillar, stripped of His clothes, and the scourging began immediately. I saw four men who t...

Seek refuge in her Immaculate heart. Amen+

"I have said before that this peace has its trials, and often even very severe trials; but far from shaking it, these trials only stren...

"The experience of this is certain, and has never failed. From the moment that we give our hearts to God, that we put our conscience in...

While my home is not a wasteland, I cannot keep up. I am frustrated that I cannot live up to any kind of ideal in homemaking, working, wivin...

"But to repose in God, what must we do? We must give ourselves entirely to Him, and we must sacrifice to Him everything else. If we onl...

"Others establish their rest in themselves, and in doing this they think they are much wiser than those who seek it in exterior things....

Let us resolve to not burden those around us with our trials and sufferings. Let us instead pour ourselves out at the feet of Jesus, Mary an...

Thus kicks off a new series. My last series on annihilation of self came from the same book - see source below. "Come unto Me, all you ...

St. Elizabeth of the Visitation - Ora pro nobis!

Bernardo Daddi. c1340. Lanckorona Collection, Wawel Castle, Krakow. Via the Roving Medievalist This is one of the most beautiful paintings I...

Wolftracker over at Kansas City Catholic has put up a great post that I highly recommend to all - hint: it has a great ending! "Prunus ...

"Let us go to the foot of the Cross, and there complain....if we have the courage." Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat Another beautiful...

You Are 52% Cynical Yes, you are cynical, but more than anything, you're a realist. You see what's screwed up in the world, but you ...

( Saints by Fra Angelico) One spiritual practice I've been using for some years now, I have found fruitful. I have more recently share...

Many in these days are under a great deal of stress. What is stress anyway? I think this to be multifaceted, a painful and difficult phenome...

It is good to go the feet of your Mother and lay before her all your troubles, wants, needs, sufferings...surrender into her merciful hands...

Don't forget in this Lenten season, as we try to "pay down" some of our debts due to sin - so also assist the Holy Souls in P...

Jesus, how brutally you were put to death. How gently did you descend from the cross. The suffering and pain are ended Lord, and you are lai...

( photo credit ) This one posted by Ken at Hallowed Ground. I love this image and the way Mary is depicted offering together with the priest...

Hello all! We are back from the trip to Chicago. Thanks be to God we returned safe and sound without a single airline/airport issue or compl...

Posting has been sparse lately as I've been so busy with work, family and home projects! My husband and I will be leaving for Chicago to...

The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order Go here for the international website for the Servite Order. I am also adding this to my favo...

Purpose of the Confraternity "The purpose of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Sorrows is to foster devotion to the passion of Christ an...