I don't write a great deal of my own reflections on this blog (though I'm resolved to try and change that) so this blog has been more of a storehouse of things I find useful and interesting. I hope you enjoy browsing through my 'attic'. :D
Oh, my God, I do not ask for the big things - the life of the missionary or the monk, or those others I see around me so full of accomplishment, I do not ask for any of these; but simply set my face to follow out unswervingly, untiringly, the common life which day to day stretches out before me, satisfied if in it I love You, and try to make you loved. Nature rebels against this life with its never-ending round of trivial tasks and full of the temptation to take relief in amusement or change. It seems so hard to be great in small things, to be heroic in the doing of the commonplace; but still this life is Your will for me. There must be a great destiny in it. And so, I am content. And then to crown the rest, dear Jesus, I beg you to give me this, fidelity to the end, to be at my post when the final call comes, and to take my last, weary breath in Your embrace. A valiant life and faithful to the end. A short wish, dearest Jesus, but it covers all.
- Servant of God Frank Duff, Can We Be Saints? Published 1916 with ecclesiastical approval
"Politics is simply the business of arranging how we love our neighbour." - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
St Thomas More, Lord Chancellor of England, pray for Catholic politicians!
I'm pro-life
Abortion stops a beating heart....
I am named after
St Dominic Savio, pray for us!
Some people I admire
St Augustine (354-430) - Teacher, preacher, doctor of the Church, a wonderful example of the power of God's grace to change lives
Ven. Edel Quinn (1907-1944) - Courageous and inspiring Legionary of Mary
Jérôme Lejeune (1926-1994) - Great scientist, discoverer of the cause of Downs Syndrome, courageous protector of children with Downs Syndrome and defender of the unborn
Bl. Pope John Paul II (1920-2005) - Moral voice of the 20th Century, God's politician!
Pope Benedict XVI (1927- ) - Our wise, gentle and humble shepherd