defénde nos in proélio

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!

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Tablet making you sick?

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...here's a simple, Traditional home remedy: print up a few of the signs below and leave them on the newsstand of any parish foolish eno...
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Sunday, 23 March 2014

Youngest daughter made her first confession today...

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Please pray for her.  
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Saturday, 25 January 2014

Vandalising the Rosary

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Photo credit: Vintagethisretrothat on Flickr   Apparently it wasn't just the Mass of Ages that the vandal Bugnini intended to demo...
Sunday, 12 January 2014

The family ... holy in essence, holier when shared

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We've just spent a pleasant impromptu evening with two other families: chatting, eating, laughing. Children from toddlers to teenage...
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Monday, 6 January 2014

Happy Feast of the Epiphany!

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  Just home from High Mass and the blessing of chalk. With this and Epiphany water from yesterday's blessing , my husband led the t...
Monday, 16 December 2013

Hay in my mantilla

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Our family had the great pleasure and privilege of assembling the parish nativity scene this afternoon, in the few hours between the Solomn ...
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Saturday, 23 November 2013

Identity politics

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Four year old son was in a philosophical mood today. "Mummy" he said, "do you know what I am?" "Go on......
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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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