A story of a turtle

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...

Trinity Sunday

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...

Trinity Sunday: St Ignatius Keys music

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...

First Saturday Fatima Ukraine

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...

I just got some candles

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...

Thought for the day

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...

Fr Stefan thought for the day

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...

Fr Stefan thought for day

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...