We visited the new Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia over the weekend. This was planned for a long time and there were reasons why it had to be at this moment. Since we are safe I won't second guess what we did, but the snow was unpleasant. Here's a picture from the edge of [...]
The Presentation O-Sek Bang, 1974 from an exhibit at the Marian Library at University of Dayton, in 2006. Madonnas of the Morning Calm: Sacred Images from Korea was an exhibit at the University of Dayton's Marian Center in 2006. It featured a Korean artist, O-Sek Bang. The promotional material says that "Ms. Bang, whose grandparents [...]
Header image Wandrille de Préville, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I read an article on the internet about the Parisian fire-fighters and their efforts, back in 2019, to save Notre Dame cathedral. https://strangesounds.org/2019/07/notre-dame-fire-collapse-save-paris.html (I found it through this blog https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/ which I have linked to in the past.) I had not paid full [...]
A Virgin of Paris statue replica is carried during a Marian candlelit procession through the streets of Paris Nov. 15, 2024, as the original, for security reasons, was transported on a truck back to Notre Dame Cathedral. The statue was kept at the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church near the Louvre for five years since Notre Dame was [...]
... A nice distinction found in the Father Lasance missal I inherited from my mother. Today, November 1, is the Feast of All Saints and I hope everyone has something festive. One of the priests around here always says, be sure to have some ice cream on a feast day. And tomorrow is the Commemoration [...]
