If you want to write well, you have to read a lot. That’s been the advice to aspiring writers, for well over fifty years. Especially, they say, read in the area where you want to write. “What you want to write” is a complicated concept. I just finished writing a book that I thought was [...]
Update! (forgot a title…)
I have several different thought lines running at the moment. Here’s an update to keep me clear. In regards to the mysterious figure in the 9th Station at my church, Our Lady of Hope, in Potomac Falls, Virginia, I got in touch with the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg. A researcher there [...]
Our Lady of Guadalupe
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 [...]
Lighting lamps
Happy Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception! This link is about lighting street lamps at night in Austin, Texas, many years ago. It reminded me of family stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDiXNsWQzD0 My great great grandfather’s job in Boston after the Civil War, was to light the lamps of the city at night. I don’t actually know how [...]
Why Elizabeth Ann? More detective work needed!
As I mentioned a week ago, in 'A Little Detective Work' (November 28), I have been looking intently at the Stations of the Cross in my home parish. When our church was built the pastor, Father Saunders, did a lot of scavenging for the furnishings. The Stations came from Saint Thomas the Apostle Church in [...]
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