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Occasional dispatches from the front line of spiritual battle. A Catholic blog. Postings often conceived in the garden, at the playground or at the kitchen sink and hastily typed out far too late at night after putting the children to bed.

Blog started on the Feast of The Divine Mercy 2011, the day of the Beatification of Pope John Paul II.
Blessed Pope John Paul II - Ora Pro Nobis!

Sunday, 27 November 2011

Anathema sit!

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We will have a new family member joining our household on 10th December - a black-brindle English Bull Terrier bitch puppy (she'll look...
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Saturday, 26 November 2011

"...how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties..."

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"Conception to birth, visualised" is a stunning use of MRI technology to show the development of the human baby. I was interested ...
Saturday, 12 November 2011

"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you..."

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“Even at that early stage [moments after fertilization], the complexity of the living cell is so great that it is beyond our comprehensio...
Wednesday, 9 November 2011

Prayer to St. Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings

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O Raphael, lead us towards those we are waiting for, those who are waiting for us!  Raphael, Angel of Happy Meetings, lead us by the hand...
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Wednesday, 2 November 2011

The biggest baby and toddler group imaginable

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That's how our much-loved parish priest described those innumerable tiny saints in Our Lady's care in his homily  for the family Ma...

The unimaginable joy of being united with God's love

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Many years ago I read a description of Purgatory as a cleansing process that allowed us to move from the darkness of sin to the brightness...
Friday, 28 October 2011

Is this worth celebrating?

Not really, but the re-conversion of England certainly would be

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photo: Swanson Media So in around four years the Act of Settlement (1701) will have been re-written and a Catholic will be able to ma...
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Annie Elizabeth
Catholic wife, mother of seven (four lovely children with us in this Vale of Tears, three tiny babes in the care of Our Blessed Mother in Heaven), living a happy but schizophrenic existence between South-East England and Southern France.
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