WOUNDED BIRD

Just six days into his presidency, Donald Trump was informed his national security adviser had misled his vice president about contacts ...

Why Lincoln Laughed: Basically a melancholy man, he was not humor's slave, and could therefore bend it to his own uses and make it a...

I couldn't resist.

Antiphon sung by the Dominican student brothers at Blackfriars in Oxford. December 17 O Wisdom that comest out of the mouth of the M...

From the findings and conclusions of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence aka as the Torture Report. I've read only 40 or so o...

A wonderful performance by Aoife O'Donovan of a song I know and love from Paul Brady's recording.  The geography in the lyrics is ...

Each year it's more difficult for me to write something meaningful about the day, now especially, because members of our military are...

Thanks to Kelvin Holdsworth at What's in Kelvin's Head? for noting the day.  Panti Bliss' "Noble Call" speaks so eloq...

But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb; and she saw two angels in white, sitting wher...

O Gracious Light Phos hilaron O gracious Light, pure brightness of the everliving Father in heaven, O Jesus Christ, holy and blessed...

The other afternoon, I watched the marvelous Top Hat (1935), a musical comedy starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, filmed in splendid...

For thus says the Lord: Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and raise shouts for the chief of the nations; proclaim, give praise, ...

How many of you know the lyrics to "Auld Lang Syne"? Or if you prefer the pipes... The Scots - they are a proud people....

St Stephen icon by Tobias Haller We give you thanks, O Lord of glory, for the example of the first martyr Stephen, who looked up to hea...

My mother made the Nativity set in her ceramics class more than twenty years ago, so it's one of my treasures.  I have Magi and cam...

Psalm 80 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel,    you who lead Joseph like a flock! You who are enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth  ...

Collect of the Day Stir up your power, O Lord, and with great might come among us; and, because we are sorely hindered by our sins, l...

Collect of the Day: Second Sunday of Advent Merciful God, who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare th...

From their wonderful album, The River in Reverse . From a review at Amazon: By  Tim Brough "author and music buff" The m...