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A Christmas Poem

The Holy One of Mary by Father Leonard Feeney, M.I.C.M. And this is He Whom Heaven hymns, All trembling in His white young limbs, Whom choirs adore and seraphs bless- Unspeakable His helplessness. A Baby’s cheek the wind would kindle. Ah, holy weaver and blessed spindle, That spun the little swaddling clothes To sheathe so [...]

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Rosa Mystica – Mystical Rose – A Medieval Mary-Song

Maria Walks Amid the Thorn reminds me of another poem from I Sing of a Maiden, this time a medieval Mary-song (author: Anonymous). Rosa Mystica There is no rose of such virtue As is the rose that bare [bore] Jesu: Alleluia! For in that rose containèd was Heaven and earth in little space: Res Miranda! [...]

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Feast of Our Lady of the Expectation

Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Expectation. This feast has an interesting history that Brother Andre reviewed for us this morning (one aspect being the deferred feast of the Incarnation — Annunciation — from the days when no feasts were kept in Lent). In Spain, this feast day is Nuestra Senora de [...]

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Plato and Liberal Education – Part Three

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. Plato and Liberal Education III. The Epochs in Plato’s Educational System The key for Plato’s system of education is the Greek word μουσικε (sounds like “musikay”) which has survived in our modern languages in such words as “music” and “museum”. To the Greeks the term had a wider signification, including [...]

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