The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard

Ch 11 The Counter in the Poultry

Spring-Summer 1594

Ch 12 The Clink Summer 1594- Spring 1597

On the use disguised and aliases to do righteous work. A defense of masks and opsec from “The Hunted Priest” by John Gerard

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that in every cloud is an angel's face." -St. Jerome

The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard
Ch15 The Tower and Torture

Ch 16 Clandestine Correspondence

Friday of the 3 week of Advent : Readings at Mass

Saturday 17 Dec Spiritual Reading : From a Letter of Pope St Leo the Great “the mystery of our reconciliation with God”

And the reading at mass Matthew 1:1-17

The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard

Ch 17 Escape,
October 4 1597

4th Sunday of Advent Lectio Divina and the reading of the Mass

The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard S. J.

Ch 18 London and Harrowden 1597-1598

Please keep my children in your prayers they are sicker than they’ve ever been, worse than Covid.

Lectio Divina and Spiritual Reading for Monday December 19th

Important considerations for movement leaders and activists: insights provoked by Unconditional Hatred: German War Guilt and the Future of Europe

by Captain Russel Grenfell

"Ask of the sinner how many impure thoughts he has consented to: he will tell you he cannot remember. But, brother, if you cannot tell the number, God can; and you know that a single willful immodest thought is enough to send you to Hell... From thoughts and words you proceed to acts, and to those innumerable impurities which those wretches roll and wallow in like swine, without ever being satisfied, for this vice is never satisfied."

ST. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI

#saint #quote #sin #purity #chastity #impurity #virtue #vice

Spiritual Reading and Lectio Divina for Saturday the 24 of December

No painting is greater than the artist who painted it, not is any sculpture grander than the hands that crafted it. No created thing is above that which created it and this is most true about the relationship between The Creator and creation itself.

“If any man say, I love God, and hateth his brother; he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother, whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?”

If a man neglects his children he cannot have the love of God in him. If a man neglects his people, ignores the dangers that face them in hopes of saving himself or avoiding suffering the love of God cannot be in him.

Today we celebrate the birth of our Lord and remember that the love and sacrifice which was made for us we owe to each other and our people.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope it was a white one! 🎄 🧑‍🎄

Listening to this book about the Donner party. It has been one of the more interesting historical incidents I have read about. One of the survivors (Virginia Reed) subsequently converted to Catholicism after seeing how much strength the faith gave the Breen family during their suffering.

I went to go read the archived diary of Patrick Breen the Catholic Irish Immigrant and one entry stood out.

“All out of meat all we have our hides nearly eaten up but with Gods help Spring will soon smile upon us February 10, 1847

The patient bearing of suffering can be a tool to inspire faith in others. That is what we should hope for, not to avoid suffering but to bear it well for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.

Lectio Divina and spiritual reading for Tuesday 27 December, Feast Day of Saint John the Evangelist