by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | Jun 16, 2022 |
A story of a turtle.. I live at St Michael which sits on what feels like a nature preserve.. large grass field.. well yesterday on my rosary walk while still adjacent to the property of St Michael but a good 1/8 of a mile from where I started., I saw a cute little box...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | Jun 12, 2022 |
St Ignatius had a mystical experience of the Trinity as 3 musical keys… But I also remember something that I read in St Theresa of Avila book ‘The Interior Castle.’ How do you know when you have entered the 7th Mansion. You don’t know the Trinity by the intellect but...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | Jun 12, 2022 |
On this Trinity Sunday I remember this image from St Ignatius ‘while praying the office of Our Lady on the steps of [a] monastery, his understanding began to be raised up, in that he was seeing the Most Holy Trinity in the form of three musical keys (en figura de...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | Jun 4, 2022 |
When Pope Francis consecrated Russia to Mary Immaculate Heart.. Fatima was becoming real again..conversion of Russia. Mary also asked for Devotion of First 5 Saturday, to pray the Rosary and mediate for 15 minutes for reparations against sins against Mary Immaculate...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | Jun 4, 2022 |
I have mass in my room most days at 530 am.. I find my eyes are not what they use to be.. so the light of a candle helps.. In the book of Revelation Jesus is standing between 7 large candles on the altar. In many Catholic Churches there are 7 candles on the altar.. we...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | May 27, 2022 |
St Therese ‘I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbours’ defects–not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.” St John of the Cross wrote ‘where there is no love put love and you will find love.’ Paddington Bear...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | May 24, 2022 |
I am reading ‘The Art of Living the Cardinal Virtues and the Freedom to Love ‘by Edward Sri.. We all know sins like adultery, missing mass for no good reason can be mortal. But I just read ‘According to Aquinas, backbiting is a mortal sin more serious than theft. He...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | May 23, 2022 |
We are called to be our own person.. I think it was Shakespeare who said ‘to your own self be true.’ But we are made who we are in a network of relationship. We become who we are by living out our lives in a series of relationships Vatican 11 says ‘that it is only in...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | May 21, 2022 |
‘His advanced philosophical and theological studies were taken at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, 1974-54. He was ordained in 1954 at the Basilica of St. John Lateran by Marcello Cardinal Micara, Vicar General of Rome. After ordination he was assigned to...
by Fr. Stefan Starzynski | May 21, 2022 |
Beauty order and newness! We often think of order as boring! But one of the aspects of order is newness. Chesterton says in his book ‘Orthodoxy’ that children never get bored with listening to dad telling the same story. There is a beauty to seeing the sun rise each...
Fr. Stefan, blessings. Your wise support my Catholic's faith. Like Hannah no matter what I need to face living as…
Wow, perfect timing! I am recovering from a dislocated rt shoulder. Because I was using a sling for over 5…
Father, is there a way to find out when you will have a healing Mass? Email maybe?
That was beautiful, Father!
I am a baby in my mother's arms I can only lift my Head to my Mother's Arms ❤