2022 may not have been a Leap Year, a St Oswald's Year * as Olympian Years usually are, but it sure was one of the strangest post-pandemic years thus far..... Let's take a look at how the year unfolded in a most unconventional patterning of events: • The awful rumours of a jekel & hyde…

Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI (1927-2022) Photo courtesy of Receive the Power: World Youth Day Sydney Australia 2008 Photo Gallery (Courtesy of The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/world/europe/pope-benedict-funeral.html) (Courtesy YouCat, 2011) (Courtesy CNN, https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/31/europe/gallery/life-in-photos-pope-benedict-xvi/index.html) (Courtesy James Hill forThe New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/31/world/europe/pope-benedict-photos.html) (Courtesy of YouCat, 2011) (Courtesy Receive the Power: World Youth Day Sydney Australia 2008 )…

~ Yet freedom, yet Thy banner, torn but flying, streams like the thunderstorm, against the wind ~ (From the acclaimed television series Against the Wind, Pegasus Productions, 1978) Thomas Merton says rather prolifically in the context of a chapter title from one of his perhaps lesser known yet marvelous works Raids on the Unspeakable, that…

Wishing You All A Happy & Holy Christmas and a Joyous New Year!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/william-shatner-earth-must-live-long-and-prosper-aoe Amazing! Phenomenal!! He had something that appears to be akin to an illumination of conscience. This article cited above about Star Trek actor William Shatner is astounding because it reveals the truth about why all this worldly fanaticism over going to Mars or some other planet in order to live there is not only…

https://www.9news.com.au/world/seoul-halloween-festivities-hundreds-dead-south-korea-itaewon/e98801e0-6af9-43d6-9315-f086de0a0305 One of the greatest symptoms of secularism's demise of the faith-life of whole societies in our world today is that too many of the people within them become "like sheep without a shepherd" (Mark 6:34) This demise was even taking hold in Jesus' own day in spite of the fact that the Jewish society…

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." —ECCLESIASTES 3:11

"See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil." —EPHESIANS 5:15-16

https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/reform-group-says-institutional-church-has-lost-the-trust-of-irish-people/16166 Things are spiralling out of control in matters of moral and socio-cultural urgency on the Emerald Isle! It is a tragic scenario of events unfolding where the faithful are disillusioned with the Church's modus operandi. There is also a looming trend among the laity most particularly, to embrace a secularistic form of Evangelical Protestantism…

Rather funny that I saw an article today in Aleteia that mentioned Dostoevsky's work The Idiot, which I quoted only yesterday in a journal entry! Here is the link to the article: https://aleteia.org/2022/05/16/the-summer-theology-institute-invites-high-school-students-to-camp-to-explore-theology-of-beauty/ This article says: The "Beauty Will Save the World" camp at The University of St. Francis features workshops on prayer, iconography, theology,…