Alice Meynell: Easter Night All night had shout of men, and cry          Of woeful women filled His way; Until that noon of sombre sky          On Friday, clamour and display Smote....

Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side, Buffet, and scoffe, scourge, and crucifie mee, For I have sinn'd, and sinn'd, and onely hee, Who could do....

Joseph Mary Plunkett: I See His Blood Upon the Rose I see his blood upon the rose And in the stars the glory of his eyes, His body gleams amid....

C. S. Lewis: Love's as Warm as Tears Love's as warm as tears,     Love is tears: Pressure within the brain, Tension at the throat, Deluge, weeks of rain, Haystacks afloat,....

What if this present were the worlds last night? Marke in my heart, O Soule, where thou dost dwell, The picture of Christ crucified, and tell Whether that countenance....

Subjects for Prayers Over the holy days, please pray for my employment. Please pray for peace in Israel throughout the Passover. And please pray for those who will be joining....

Worthy the Reading III City Journal et al. Your Faithful and Humble Blogster has been informed, once again, by no less than the Senior Editor himself of City Journal that....

Ecclesia de Eucharistia "On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church" The pope's new encyclical, promulgated today, is available at New Advent.

Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend Your force,....

Worthy the Reading II Wow, Who Are the Smart Guys? The Liberal Pessimists Still Red How churches played into Iraq's hands AWOL Distortion by omission (Thanks, Mark and John.)

April Morning One of my poems is 15 years old today. April Morning

Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest, My Soule, this wholsome meditation, How God the Spirit, by Angels waited on In heaven, doth make his Temple in....

More on CNN's Perfidy Truth-Telling Corruption at CNN CNN's disinformation campaign Cross-Examining Jordan And still more on CNN

Abraham Lincoln Died This Day, April 15, 1865 "What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling seacoasts, the guns of....

Father, part of his double interest Unto thy kingdome, thy Sonne gives to mee, His joynture in the knottie Trinitie, Hee keepes, and gives to me his deaths conquest.....

Worthy the Reading Seven American POWs Are Rescued Confused Start, Decisive End The 10-hour battle for Curly, Larry and Moe Rest in peace CNN has lost its credibility

At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow Your trumpets, Angells, and arise, arise From death, you numberlesse infinities Of soules, and to your scattred bodies goe, All whom the....

Oh, to vex me, contraryes meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begott A constant habit; that when I would not I change in vowes, and in devotione. As humorous....

Holy Week Sermons by Ven. John Henry Newman. At Newman Reader: Religious Emotion Bodily Suffering The Humiliation of the Eternal Son The Incarnate Son, a Sufferer and Sacrifice (Sixth Sunday....