Dymphna's Road

She was truthful when lying was the common speech of men; she was honest when honest was become a lost virtue; she was a keeper of promises ...

  This is a fine statue of St. Therese but it's not just pretty. It teaches as well. Her name was Therese of the Child Jesus and th...

Catholic Answers needs  help and has launched an appeal.  I've never cared for them but that's not what this post is about. I hate i...

Psst. While everybody is babbling about one little twit, who is laughing all the way to the bank, our country is getting closer and closer t...

* I know of one priest in my diocese who is being muttered about because the poor man doesn't run the parish  just like the old pries...

 I'm sick  with a monster sinus attack and feeling as limp as Hamlet's Ophelia.  Usually when this happens I just lie in bed in the ...

I live in Northern Virginia. Because the capitol is so close we have people from all over the world here. My neighbors are legal, illegal, C...

Annunciation   Visitation   Nativity   Presentation in the temple Finding of the Child Jesus in the temple  

The Resurrection      The Ascension   Descent of the Holy Spirit   Assumption of Our Lady Coronation of Our Lad...

“It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. ...

 The Agony in the garden     The Scourging     The Crowning with thorns   Carrying the Cross   The Crucif...

Do you believe that the Host is the flesh of Our Lord? Do you believe that the wine is His own precious blood? I get the impression tha...

The pope made an off the cuff remark about gay priests that has gotten a lot of attention. One blogger used the headline "Francis Allow...

Whenever Rocky and I head North on vacation we try to stop at the Grotto of Lourdes at Emmitsburg in Maryland. They've made some changes...

*There's an interesting thread on raising children on Rorate Caeli. Some of it's good. Some of it made me grimace. Parenting is har...

From a photo from Fr. Lawrence's photo blog. In a grave they laid thee, O my Life and my Christ: and the armies of the angels were...