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St. Oliver Plunkett
St. Oliver Plunkett The name of today’s saint is especially familiar to the Irish and the English—and with good reason. The English martyred Oliver Plunkett for defending the faith in his native Ireland during a period of severe persecution. Born in County...
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International woman's day
On the day of the eighth of March in 1917. There was a strike in Petrograd. No ordinary strike. For it was by women. And it was this strike that caused the end of Royalty in Russia. The Tsar was overthrown. It was these women that brought Socialism to...
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The Dragon-fly
Seen on a pond on a summer's day. A great water-beetle has the larva, which is also a terrible beast of prey. besides being able to kill tadpoles it can kill quite sizeable fish. The Dragon-fly is also a formidable creature which competes in ferocity...
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Sophism
"sophism - a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone." You know...trying to sound smart, when you're not. In Greece, sophism was practiced by sophists, who were a group of teachers of philosophy...
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An honesty box.
An Honesty box. An honesty box could be used for selling simple products to visitors or friends using an honour system. Or for charging simple trading like for teas and coffees or chutneys and cakes. The majority of people are honest. However some people...
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St Thomas the Apostle.
Poor Thomas! He made one remark and has been branded as “Doubting Thomas” ever since. But if he doubted, he also believed. He made what is certainly the most explicit statement of faith in the New Testament: “My Lord and My God!” and, in so expressing...
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An Icelandic Saga
The beginning of a saga Iceland is a little country far north in the cold sea. Men found it and went there to live more than a thousand years ago. During the warm season they used to fish and make fish-oil and hunt sea-birds and gatherfeathers and tend...
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Who is tracking the Internet?
An internet security specialist discovered that Facebook is like the BigBrother. Facebook is apparently tracking what you browse even after you have logged off This is done so that facebook can sell that data to advertisers and earn from your searches....
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The Kontakion of the Nativity
The Kontakion of the Nativity by Romanos the Melodist is still considered to be his masterpiece, and up until the twelfth century, it was sung every year at the imperial banquet on there feast. This Byzantine melody is lovely and serene, which adapted...
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Hamburg G20
Hamburg. Bosch in his imagination would have painted it 500 years ago. The high-security zone is in fact Hamburg. Hamburg the high-security zone. Hamburg no way in and no way out for us ordinary people. Most of the roads have been blocked. Drones are...
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Emmanuel Ruiz
Emmanuel Ruiz Not much is known of the early life of Emmanuel Ruiz, but details of his heroic death in defense of the faith have come down to us. Born of humble parents in Santander, Spain, he became a Franciscan priest and served as a missionary in Damascus....
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Rose
The rose is the perfect national flower for the diverse, beautiful, loving USA. Roses have grown in the United States for millennia; archaeological evidence suggests that the plant may be as much as 35 million years old! George Washington, the first president,...
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The end of Black Sabbath
In Birmingham where they first started, Black Sabbath they played their last concert Nearly half century of music. Metal music, not so much the originator, but they where the first band to put all the important musical elements together. They had a serious...
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A Coffee joke
When does a coffee bean know when it has a cold? It coughs. he he he I'm trying to be more environmentally friendly these days. I just go around my local park complimenting the trees. At school, I got caned when in Geography; it must have been about N...
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Giovanni da Rimini: National Gallery
Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and other Saints In the times before television and newspapers it was displayed in the church the once prominent scene of entertainment, Music, paintings. story-telling and the narration depicted colourfully so as to...
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St. Gregory Grassi
St. Gregory Grassi Christian missionaries have often gotten caught in the crossfire of wars against their own countries. When the governments of Britain, Germany, Russia, and France forced substantial territorial concessions from the Chinese in 1898,...
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Dragon-fly
The dragon-fly, hovering above the leaf, is the greatest of our British dragons of the air. The green and gold body glitters in the sunlight as the great, translucent globes of its compound eyes look out in all directions for some succelent insect to...
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The knights three.
We had the fight with the big troll and now the black knights were attacking the soldiers so the knights ran off on their horses and their machines. The enormous catapault-machines The black knights were victorious The king along with six knights were...
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St. Augustine Zhao Rong
St. Augustine Zhao Rong Christianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Depending on China’s relations with the outside world, Christianity over the centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly. The 120 martyrs in this group...
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St. Veronica Giuliani
St. Veronica Giuliani Veronica’s desire to be like Christ crucified was answered with the stigmata. Veronica was born in Mercatelli, Italy. It is said that when her mother Benedetta was dying she called her five daughters to her bedside and entrusted...
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The butterfly in July.
THE BUTTERFLY As the warm July days came, Mr. Yellow Butterfly wriggled and pushed in his snug little green chrysalis and wished he could get out to see the world. He remembered the days when he was a hairy little Caterpillar, crawling slowly over grass...
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Die Katze Mieze und die Maus
Die Katze Mieze und die Maus Auf der Bank steht ein Milchtopf. Vor der Bank sitzt die Katze Mieze. Da kommt eine Maus. Die Maus will Milch trinken. Aber die Katze Mieze sieht die Maus. Sie will die Maus fangen und springt auf den Milchtopf. Aber --- o...
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1170: The Norman Invasion of Ireland
1170: The Norman Invasion More than a century after the Norman Conquest of England, Henry II of England claimed and attempted to attach Ireland to his kingdom. He succeeded in establishing control in a small area around Dublin known as the Pale. Over...
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Blessed Joachima
Blessed Joachima Born into an aristocratic family in Barcelona, Spain, Joachima was 12 when she expressed a desire to become a Carmelite nun. But her life took an altogether different turn at 16 with her marriage to a young lawyer, Theodore de Mas. Both...
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1609: The Plantation of Ulster
1609: The Plantation of Ulster By the end of Queen Elizabeth's reign, military conquest had established English rule over most of the island of Ireland, with the principal exception of the northern province of Ulster. The Ulster clans, under Hugh O'Neill,...