Personal blog of

Fr. Stefan Starzynski

Mother day Holy Spirit

by | May 8, 2022 | 0 comments

Mother’s Day and the Holy Spirit reflection from the ‘Soul Institute’ I just got an emergency call to go to the hospital and anoint this woman. Her son said that she only has minutes to live. I anointed her, and twenty members of the family prayed the divine mercy...

Mother day

by | May 8, 2022 | 0 comments

The Blessed Virgin Mary is an image of the Holy Spirit. A mother gives us life in the natural. The Holy Spirit gives life to us in the supernatural. It is not our mother that gives us life? We say in the creed about the Holy Spirit that He is the Lord and the Giver of...

I am at a priest convocation

by | May 3, 2022 | 0 comments

I am at a priest convocation in Pa.. while I look at priest on a long free afternoon go on 16 mile bike rides.. I long to set and read.. Our conference is on the Eucharist given by the head of the Augustine Institute.. Which is perfect because I am reading St Irenaeus...

Philosophy in college

by | May 1, 2022 | 0 comments

I just read something ‘that only 5 percent of college require a class in philosophy to graduate.’ I remember this line from an 80 song ‘Philosophy is the talk of the cereal box religion the smile on the dog.’ What is philosophy? It is love of wisdom and a search for...

Fr Stefan thought

by | May 1, 2022 | 0 comments

Random thought.. I am no intellectual.. in fact I was mentally challenged.. I was put in the slow class all the way through college.. I was taken out of class in elementary school and high school to classes for the mentally challenged.. but I always loved the...

Oil and Blessing

by | Apr 27, 2022 | 0 comments

I am finishing a book ‘The Stripping of the Altars’ by Eamon Duffy. It details traditional religion in England 1400 to 1580. I am on the chapter ‘the attack on Traditional Religion ‘ the attack on Catholicism by Crammer, Henry VIII and Cromwell. Such things like ‘it...

Last year Divine Mercy Sunday

by | Apr 24, 2022 | 0 comments

Last year I heard the confession of a woman and gave her communion, and prayed the chaplet of Mercy with her on Divine Mercy Sunday at the hospital.. told her about the promise of Mercy on this day.. she died hours later.. This morning get called to the hospital a...

Divine Mercy and the rays

by | Apr 24, 2022 | 0 comments

In life of St F… she saw the the rays coming from the Eucharist. She saw the rays but others did not.. On at least 2 times I got called to the hospital to give Last Rites… on both occasion a globe of light exploded over the person who was dying as we were praying the...