Last week I traveled for a while and read two and a half new books. I also enjoyed leaving my computer alone for five days. ; ) The first book was The Great Passion by James Runcie. It sounds like some regency love story but, no. It is a historical novel about the writing of [...]
Over the weekend, I drove down the western spine of Virginia, through the Blue Ridge mountains, and then returned. Somehow I was totally surprised by the landscape. I think I usually see the Blue Ridge mountains from the eastern side. At dusk they can look absolutely turquoise-teal blue, bluer-than-blue blue. It’s suddenly obvious how they [...]
Today is the amazing Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Knights of Columbus put together a timeline of stories about the apparition and times when it was mentioned in official documents. https://www.kofc.org/en/resources/our-lady-of-guadalupe/guadalupe-story.pdf KofC website I had forgotten that, at the Battle of Lepanto, when the admiral flew an image of Mary, it was specifically [...]
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