‘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.
Thursday, 7 June 2018
MAKING NO APOLOGY
I make no apology for sharing the 'holy thoughts' I send my kids every night by email (along with a lot of other information they'd probably do better without, gossip and stuff). It seems to me that many people - not necessarily Catholics - hunger for more knowledge of Church doctrine and Tradition.
The offering of gifts (in the Mass) ... are precious moments of recollection, readying ourselves for sharing most intimately in the sacred act in which we are all called to exercise our holy priesthood, accompanying the bread and wine with our own lives, works, prayers, sufferings, weariness, sacrifices and resolutions, so that Christ may take them into his own offering to the Father.
-Fr Gabriel of S Mary Magdalen, Divine Intimacy
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