Kate Chopin ‘The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in...
The odds
What do you think are the odds of this.. getting 100 back. This morning on walk go to grocery store get paper to read for breakfast at hospital. This is my Saturday Sunday...
Elvis Paul Stefan home Memphis
I am only 20 minutes into movie ‘Elvis ‘ it is a great movie..: love it.. I remember 15 years ago going to Memphis with no place to stay.: wanted to go to St Jude hospital and be...
Post Christian World Declaration of Independence
We read in the Declaration ‘ We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable Right, that...
Fr Stefan musing
The writer Peter Kreeft writes ‘ Abortion is the Antichrist’s demonic parody of the Eucharist. That is why it uses the same holy words. ‘This is my body.’ with the blasphemoussly...
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...
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...
St Therese and Paddington Bear I just got a Paddington Bear as a gift..
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...
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...
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...