Around Her funeral couch.

Yesterday the meditation from St. Alphonsus was on  the Death of Most Holy Mary. By today the beautiful funeral couch of the Mot...
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Tu es Sacerdos in Æternum!

Today Fr. Michael Mary celebrates 34 years of Holy Priesthood! What a great example of perseverance to us all. Please join us in thanking ...
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What Matilda won for her darling.

In preparation for the feast of The Assumption of Our Lady. The holy death of the Blessed Virgin Mary. + How a mother prep...
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"It is just a fact of life" - Bishop Hugh, O.S.B.

As a monk and a priest, I don't marry. This doesn't make me better or worse than married people. It is just a fact of life. Someone...
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A Foggy Feast

I personally really like it when it is foggy on Papa Stronsay.  There is a real feeling of peace and of monastic isolation.  Therefore I ...
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St Alphonsus and Prayer - Pope Benedict XVI, yesterday.

ON PRAYER ACCORDING TO ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI "He who prays is saved. He who prays not is damned!" Only yesterday. T...
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All is well in Papa Stronsay.

Update + The Papa Stronsay Minor Lighthouse Far in the bosom of the deep, O'er these wild shelves my watch I keep; A r...
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