7 July ~ St. Willibald, Bishop of Eichstatt
Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Bonifac...
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New Monasticism
“At the Last Judgement I shall not be asked whether I was successful in my ascetic exercises, how many bows and prostrations I made [in the course of pray...
2 July ~ Ştefan cel Mare (Stephen the Great)
The holy and right-believing Prince Saint Stephen the Great (Romanian: Dreptcredinciosul Voievod Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt) was ruler of Moldova (in modern-day R...
Dignity of the Human Person
I have begun to read the little book, The Pearl of Great Price, The Life of Mother Maria Skobtsova by Sergei Hackel and I have found what I think is a wonderful...
9 June ~ Our venerable and God-bearing Father Columba of Iona, Enlightener of Scotland
He was born to Fedhlimidh and Eithne of the Ui Neill clan in Gartan, near Lough Gartan, Donegal. On his father’s side he was great-great-grandson of Niall...
Insulted Again
Well I guess you just cannot do a good job in this Town without meeting the scorn of the “let’s sit on the side lines and complain, but do nothing t...
The Priest and Obedience
In a previous post, I wrote about a priest being removed by his bishop for wearing a cassock. I fear I may not have been fair in my treatment of that post and h...
24 October ~ Maglorious of Sark
Saint Maglorious was an abbot of Irish origin. He was educated at Llantwit Major by Illtud. With Samson he went to Brittany and founded monasteries under the pr...
11 October ~ St. Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking
She lived in the 7th century. Benedictine abbess of a dual Monastery, daughter of the king of the East Angles and sister of Sts. Eronwald Bishop of London, Ethe...
11 October ~ St. Kenneth, Abbot of Aghaboe and the Outer Hebrides
According to a legend he was born in 525 in Glengiven, County Derry, northern Ireland. His father was a distinguished royal bard, and his mother’s name was Ma...