Reading and writing through time and space.
Guten tag, meine Freunde. 🙂 I hope you find yourselves well at this very eerie point in history in which we witness the coronavirus pandemic sweep the globe. Is it not odd? Does it not feel a bit apocalyptic? Dystopian, even? Just a bit? In my corner of the world, I'm currently not leaving … Continue reading The Prayers of a Heart that Hurts
O Lord, I am not worthy of you. Come in my heart and soul and mind, guide my every thought, word, and deed. St. Germaine de Pibrac I have read about quite a few saints over the course of the last month, but none of them have stirred my heart quite so much as little … Continue reading St. Germaine: The Good Treasure of One’s Heart
The Happy Trinity is her home: nothing can trouble her joy. She is the bird that evades every net: the wild deer that leaps every pitfall. Like the mother bird to its chickens or a shield to the arm'd knight: so is the Lord to her mind, in His unchanging lucidity.... She may walk among … Continue reading Fiat Mihi Secundum Verbum Tuum: What I Intend to Learn from the Lives of Female Saints