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Thursday, June 5, 2025

WHO EVER HEARD OF CHICLAYO?

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  By now everyone knows as much about the new Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, as they think they can, and one of the new pieces of the puzzle of ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

NEW STAMPS

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  The Vatican has issued its first official postage stamps featuring Pope Leo XIV.   Issued May 27, the commemorative set includes four stam...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

MODERN MYSTIC OF UKRAINE

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  As we continue to pray for the on-going war in Ukraine, I present a mystic born in that country, who Father E. mentioned in a class recent...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

GOD'S ARCHITECT

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  Earlier in the month (May 16)  we dealt with an American Benedictine architect, Father Michael McInerney, OSB.   Here is another builder, ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

A MAN OF CLEAR IDEAS

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  POPE LEO  ‘has the mentality of a mathematician’ and ‘knows how to govern,’ confrère says.   In an interview with the Vatican newspaper,...
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

NEW MADONNA

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    May 18, Volodymyr Zelensky met with the new Holy Father, Pope Leo.   “For many nations, the image of a mother and child is a symbol ...
Friday, May 16, 2025

BENEDICTINE ARCHITECT

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  I think many years ago, I did a Blog on the work of my great grandfather, who was a well- known architect and builder (he did the first “s...
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SHAW ISLAND, WA, United States
I am a Benedictine nun living on a small beautiful island in the Salish Sea, off the coast of Northern Washington. The main purpose of this Blog is to introduce new Saints, esp. of the 20 & 21 C , as well as other relevant Church news. And also to show snippets of our life, our prayer, our farm with its many animals, and other facets of our monastic life.
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