Corpus Christi
First Holy Communion I was lucky to attend Holy Mass today, on the feast day of Corpus Christi, also known…
2020
Shavuot – Pentecost
The original Novena For nine days before Pentecost the Church prays Veni Creator Spiritus… All novenas – intense prayers for…
The good life? – “Aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands“
Saint Paul‘s advice to the Church at Thessalonica and to us on how to live one‘s life in this world…
Protected: From Romeo and Juliet to the Jeweler‘s Shop: What is love?
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Virtues we barely understand: Temperance
The meaning and the fruits of temperance The last of the four cardinal virtues is the virtue of temperance –…
On honoring and loving the saints
“Saints are wild. Saints risk everything on God. Saints are lovers: in love with God (and therefore with God‘s children),…
Protected: Israeli mentality. A vocabulary.
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Yad Vashem
August 2016, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel, writing down one thought on a piece of paper: “What is all we live…
Virtues we barely understand: Fortitude
Who‘s a hero, Novalis? There is a lot of talk about “heroes“ these days, isn‘t there? Is anyone who simply…
Flesh and blood, not ghosts
14th April 2020 Face to face “But brothers and sisters, after we were orphaned by separation from you for a…