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April's Change1 comment

Peadar Ban wrote 1 month ago: Two robins, the first I’ve seen Land, one, another soon On the bare limbed tree, Take counsel … more →

Tags: Beauty, gods garden, Poetry, today, crocus, Music, robins, spring

I Am So Glad You're Here!2 comments

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: Introduction: In  her essay “The Kingfisher: Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Recovery of Wonder … more →

Tags: Opinion, gods garden, culture and memory, Catholic culture, THE WAY OF BEAUTY, christian culture, cathedrals, Notre Dame, Pope Francis

The New Dhimmitude

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: A Reflection on an Article by R.R. Reno “When people talk about religion in America they almos … more →

Tags: A Sad Fact, Formerly Catholic Places, Freedom of Religion, The Cost of Discipleship, Dhimmitude, First Things, Prophecy, R. R. Reno

Holy To The Lord

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: I had a friend who complained to me recently that he was tired of getting up and slogging off to his … more →

Tags: Real Life, Truth, Opinion, Beauty, Good Music, today, Catholic culture, Work, Beethoven

Blood, Blossoms, Buildings and Babies

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: It was still only half bright at a little before six in the morning when the pain became too much to … more →

Tags: A Sad Fact, ethics, Mad Science, The News, DNA, Dr. Peter Kreeft, Flowers, Infanticide, Touchstone Magazine

March Is A Lamb Today

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: Something else from the Facebook page of my favorite Internet business, The Christian Book Corner: M … more →

Tags: Reflections, Beauty, Good Music, culture and memory, today, Day Book, Playing, Children, Music

I Will Take Today

Peadar Ban wrote 2 months ago: Here is something from The Christian Book Corner‘s Facebook Page: TODAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2013:  I … more →

Tags: Beauty, The Life of Grace, Christian music, Sacred Music, silliness, today, Day Book, Catholic culture, THE WAY OF BEAUTY

A Happier, Gentler and More Enlightened Age

Peadar Ban wrote 3 months ago: In Glendalough, a little village in the Wicklow Mountains less than an hour south of Dublin, there a … more →

Tags: Christian Books, The Life of Grace, Spiritual journey, gods garden, Christian music, Sacred Music, Conversion, THE WAY OF BEAUTY, ANGELS

This Is The Night

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: (Here is a poem, a meditation on the Season of Advent, that first appeared at The Christian Book Cor … more →

Tags: Advent, Catholic culture, Dreams, Poetry, Reflections, ANGELS, Christmas, Spiritual journey

A Medieval Christmas4 comments

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: We returned from an all too short trip up the Rhine River just two days before Thanksgiving.  It was … more →

Tags: Christian Books, Spiritual journey, culture and memory, Memory, Catholic culture, THE WAY OF BEAUTY, Christmas, A Medieval Christmas, cathedrals

A Terrible Lightning

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: Here is something I posted first to the Facebook page of The Christian Book Corner.  It is not prett … more →

Tags: Real Life, Christian music, Native Land, Grief, mourning, THE DEATH OF A NATION, ALAS, Faith, Catholic culture

Today, December 12, 2012 at 6:00 AM1 comment

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: Here is another thing I pulled off the Facebook page of The Christian Book Corner: A light bluish gr … more →

Tags: culture and memory, Faith, Memory, Catholic culture, Prayer, God's Love, St. Augustine, Franz Schubert, mornings

People Look East!

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: I picked up this little bit of timely wisdom from the Facebook site of The Christian Book Corner. (I … more →

Tags: Truth, Advent, The Catholic Catechism, lies, Degeneracy, eroticism, Christian, Catholic, Purity

The Light and The Dark

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: You know, I should know better because I am part of the tradition.  So are about 95 percent of the f … more →

Tags: A Sad Fact, Gone All Gone, invincible ignorance, just plain stupidity, Man the Measure, the examined life, Advent, Christmas, Darkness

Read To Me!

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: Perhaps the greatest adventures we can take are the ones we take between the covers of a book. I thi … more →

Tags: Reading, Christian Books, Good Books, Beauty, Children's Books, culture and memory, the life of the mind, Memory, Christmas

I Will Carry: A Meditation for Advent2 comments

Peadar Ban wrote 5 months ago: Below appears a poem I wrote, a meditation for Advent.  It is also on our bookstore’s Facebook … more →

Tags: Poetry, Mercy, Grace, Spiritual journey, Saints for Company, Faith, Catholic culture, Saints To Pray With, Advent

A Poem of the New Creation, by Peter Milward, S.J. (A Review of Sorts)1 comment

Peadar Ban wrote 6 months ago: Oh, we have “Paradise Lost”, that towering history, and its twin, “Paradise Regained”, shorter, but … more →

Tags: Reflections, Poetry, Christian Books, Good Books, Literature, The Life of Grace, Catholic culture, THE WAY OF BEAUTY, Peter Milward S.J.

A Book Review in the Form of a Meditation on Eucharist2 comments

Peadar Ban wrote 7 months ago: First admit that there is God, and God has created everything including us. Admit further that God’s … more →

Tags: Reading, Christian Books, Good Books, Literature, Grace, Spiritual journey, Conversion, Catholic culture, spirituality

A Little Daily Wisdom

Peadar Ban wrote 7 months ago: I think I was in my forties when I first encountered St. Teresa of Avila, Carmelite reformer, foundr … more →

Tags: Reading, Christian Books, Good Books, Literature, Saints for Company, Catholic culture, spirituality, Religion, The Spiritual Life


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