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The Turn Of The Clock
Meteorologically, it is now autumn, even if officially we are still in the dying embers of summer. And it is at those turning points of any year that I tend to take a look back and review what has been happening since the last time I undertook such an endeavour. I find that as a general rule, my conclusions tend to be mixed. Spiritually, my devotions haven’t changed and nor do I foresee any major future change to these – aside from the Mass, the Rosary is the primary spiritual devotion and I am still using a variety of little meditation books as a way of gleaming as much spiritual…
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Death By Inertia
You know how it is. You have so very many good intentions about so very many different things. You think about all those intentions. In depth and often. Then you think about them a little more. You might even be a little bit happy with yourself that you are so filled with all these good intentions. A year later, you look back and realise they have all remained just that – intentions. You have not actually done anything with so much as one of them. This was my experience yesterday. It all began toward the end of the summer last year. Looking paternally at all the pots on the garden…
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To Know and Love Him
I remember about two hundred years ago when I was at primary school, we were taught the Catechism. After establishing that we are made by God, the next question was this one – “Why did God make you?”. The answer we all gave was simple and clear – “to know Him and love Him in this world, and to be with Him forever in the next”. And since those early days it has always seemed to me that, regardless of how much we try to complicate things, our Faith comes down to this one essential fact. God desires that we know Him and love Him, so that we can be…
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The Song of the Rosary
Over the years – and there have been quite a few of those – I have watched with interest as various religious devotions and spiritual practices came to the fore in Catholic circles; some of those practices and devotions remained there, while others seemed to vanish again. Some proved to be rather popular, others less so. One or two gained much greater prominence and earned themselves a permanent place in the life of the Church – the Divine Mercy devotion being a worthy and excellent example of this. I have to confess that sometimes, people would mention their latest spiritual discovery and I wouldn’t have the first idea what they…
