Sure, death and taxes are the two things you can count on. Sometimes you get both: for the Benedictine abbess St. Walburga, being dead doesn’t exempt you from Germany’s TV license fee.
Author: Richard Chonak
Blessed André Bessette
“It is St. Joseph who cures. I am only his little dog.”
Alfred (Brother André) Bessette served for 40 years as the porter at the Holy Cross brothers’ school in Montreal, while he worked to build a shrine across the street in honor of St. Joseph. He even went so far as to leave St. Joseph’s statue out in the rain until the Saint himself would provide the funds for a roof. St. Joseph came through.
Let’s not peak too soon
Joshua Claybourn nominates CL and various other sites for a 2003 Bloggy. (blush, blush)
In terra fiat pax?
Let there be peace on earth
but please do not sing that song.
It isn’t fit for Mass:
the style is completely wrong.
A broad schmaltzy anthem
in three-quarter time
with an oom-pah-pah rhythm
is not a work sublime.
Back in a summer camp
In ’55 it began
It’s not a sacred work
its focus is merely man.
It’s well-intended,
but good intentions
don’t make good liturgy.
In terra fiat pax
but don’t sing that song at me.
The origin of the song is described at http://www.jan-leemusic.com/.