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 [...]
Knitting drama…
TL:DR Go find a nice Advent Occupation. I learned to spin originally by watching Youtube videos on how to do it. Knitting the resultant yarn or weaving with it or giving it away for someone else to knit is also a joy. Fundamentally, I like the craft world and have tried a lot of different [...]
A Little Detective Work
My beautiful parish church has marble statues from a church in California, that was damaged in an earthquake. (They were free, except we had to pay transport. So, not free. Very expensive, in fact.) There are stained glass windows from two different churches, torn down in Pennsylvania, and the Stations of the Cross are molds [...]
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