Days in February with Saint Francis de Sales – on prayer
With Lent being a season of penitential and intensified prayer, let us prepare ourselves for it with the words of…
Days in February with Saint Francis de Sales – on obedience, chastity, poverty
I have just started to get my kitchen ready for Lent. I put all the things that for seven weeks…
Marriage, and true friendship
Mere eros is an unreliable compass when it comes to marriage. Let us think of marriage rather as a very…
Days in February with Saint Francis de Sales – advice on how to dress
Really? There are saints who counsel us on our wardrobe and appearance? Indeed there are. The Catholic religion is so…
Preparing ourselves for the season of Lent
In the Old Liturgy, the traditional Roman Rite, we are always slowly and gradually prepared for everything, prepared even for…
Reclaiming Saint Valentine‘s Day
Dear reader, I share with you my very personal take on how we can reclaim Saint Valentine‘s Day this year…
On marriage: Mr Darcy, the plight of Sara, and messengers and patron saints of holy matrimony
“Marriage should be honored by all“ Hebrews 13: 4 Ladies looking for a husband Two days before Saint Valentine‘s day,…
Days in February with Saint Francis de Sales – on conversation and speech
It is another grey and rainy Monday during those seemingly endless months of winter in Berlin. The cold weather one…
Saint Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr of the ancient Church
Izmir, and the disciple of Saint John the Apostle I have never been to Izmir, Turkey, only once to Istanbul.…
Judith the Widow – Part II
As random as these notes may be, it still makes, as always, little sense to read the sequel without having…