“Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world […]
Browsing Category: Journal Pages
Journal Pages
A PRAYER IN HOPE
It lived on day in the Second Canticle of Spring, its song voiced by birds, messengers on wing, in proclamation of arrival to new and promised life. She departed on day when the first of spring shone green through recession of winter’s covering snow; appearing in the low bases and shortest blades of wintered […]
Journal Pages / Quick Thought
OUR PART
“There is a responsibility that everyone can take up: we need to decide if we are going to collectively and individually tilt the world towards Heaven or tilt it towards Hell.”—Jordan B. Peterson There comes a point when we discern the most-wrong way to live is deference—putting off life and denying one’s perceived course […]
Journal Pages / Poetry
SHEPHERD’S VIEW
However lowly we may perceive ourselves to be, made in the image of God, we all possess possibilities for the miraculous, even if it something as simple and common (if that’s how one chooses to see) as raising up those who will continue this existence after we are gone.
Journal Pages
PARALLELS
Is not writing, in its own way, a form of prayer—a messaging of thought, hope, desire, and wish—offered into the universe without promise of response? Maybe, for some words and prayers, we truly seek an answer. Others, maybe to give them is enough—their effect and answer coming in the consequence of contemplation in focusing […]
Journal Pages
IN EVERY WOMAN
In every woman, I see a Mary: made for miracles, imbued with goodness and who, by their gift of bringing life into this world, saves man from his own end. Whether Mother or Magdalene, God loves and works in each: changing hearts, minds, and souls by drawing those in world around nearer to communion […]
Journal Pages
NERO
“What if Nero wasn’t a monster? What if he was not an abomination, the destroyer of a once great civilization, but the epitome of what its culture sought to make? Maybe there is a point of declension from which a culture may never return or rise again. All movements need scapegoats, but what if […]
Journal Pages
DANGEROUS MEN
“Read the eyes,” he spoke. “Trust the eyes. They say what words cannot. In them, you see depth in soul and, in some, only an empty vessel. Exploiters of the world raise high empty vessels. Empty vessels are not a threat to those who help them rise, and, in their emptiness, such vessels drain […]
Journal Pages
THE LITTLE THINGS
THE LITTLE THINGS: They go a long way—affirmations, encouragements, recognition, simple kindness… Want a better world? Begin with the little things.