sacramentality

Homily: “‘Yes, but How?’ Blessed Mary and Vocation

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Delivered on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 2014 at Saint Paul’s, Riverside, Illinois. [display_podcast] How delicate these last days must have been for Mary—these last days before the birth of her son, Jesus, the son of the Most High. These last hours when, as it does for women about to go into the ever-deepening cycles … Read more

“Ode to Millicent”; a poem by Martin Thornton

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Ode to Millicent Or Franciscus Redivivus By Martin Thornton (published in The Countryman, Summer 1972) I was digging up potatoes in the garden of the Rectory, In cold October sunshine, working steadily along, Neither burdened by the labour nor the time that it would take me, All enveloped in potatoes; millipedes; another row. I was … Read more