‘Canto fermo’ is the term for an existing melody used as the basis for a new composition. The prose and poetry of mystics like John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila and Edith Stein – all informed by the Gospel – is my ‘melody’. The ‘new composition’ is this blog and my indie novel ‘The Age for Love’. To buy my book go to amazon.com or smashwords.com and download to your kindle, iPad, phone or any reading device.
Monday, 4 January 2016
HOW TO BE HAPPY
"Has anyone ever told you how to be happy?" was the question I put to my fourteen year-old granddaughter this morning.
"No," said Frances.
"Do something for someone else every day,' I said.
Doing something for someone else every day is the way to become a saint, is the way it was put to me a few years ago, but I thought that wouldn't go down so well with a teenager.
It comes to the same thing; it's saints who are truly happy.
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