Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost — A Message From St. Augustine
Good Samaritan Icon,Michael Kapeluck, Modern Translation of the Holy Gospel According to Luke At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them. And behold a certain lawyer stood [...]
A Poem to Our Blessed Mother
OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS Salus Populi Romani Icon, attrib. St. Luke the Evangelist, 2018 Restored The world is very foul and dark,And sin has marred its outline fair;But we are taught to look above,And see another image there.And I will raise my eyes above-Above a world of sin and woe,Where sinless, griefless, near her Son,Sits Mary on her throne of snow. Mankind seems very foul and dark,In some lights that we see it in,Lo! [...]