Elijah’s prayer leads from mercy learned at the Wadi Cherith to the unveiled face of Christ.

Quote of the day, 6 August: The Holy Prophet Elijah

Elijah’s path leads from mercy learned beside the Wadi Cherith, through urgent intercession and the fire of Mount Carmel, to the unveiled face of Christ at the Transfiguration. The Catechism shows how Elijah’s encounters with God formed him for his prophetic mission and called the people to faith and conversion of heart. Reading time: 2 minutes Read more →

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✡️✝️ Could a monastery exist inside a Nazi transit camp? At Westerbork, Edith Stein and other Catholic religious imprisoned for their Jewish ancestry tried to create one. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSZQ0H #EdithStein #Holocaust

🙏 Continual prayer can seem beyond reach. Brother Lawrence offers hope: ordinary grace can teach willing souls to live in God’s presence through love, trust, thanksgiving, and self-offering. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSZS3m #Prayer #Catholic

4 Aug 1677: The #Irish Dominican friars are given the convent of SS Sixtus & Clement in #Rome as a residence #otd They are still there.

St John the Baptist Juan Martínez Montañés Spanish c. 1620–30 (Met Museum)

4 Aug 1557: The body of Anne of Cleves, former spouse of Henry VIII is brought #otd to #Westminster Abbey. She well outlasted him - by a whole decade (St. John's Oxford) But she never did return home.

4 Aug 1633: d. Archbishop George Abbot #otd This paves the way for William Laud's rise to #Canterbury (NPG) There will be trouble ahead.

4 Aug 1521: b. Giambattista Castagna, #Pope for only 12 days in Sept 1590 as Urban VII #otd

David and Goliath Rembrandt van Rijn, 1655. (Art Institute Chicago)

Portrait of a Woman [Probably Joanna von Salm, née von Römer] Bartel Bruyn the Younger, c. 1561. (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Do not mess with her.

4 Aug 1633: Preaching at Christ Church #Dublin #otd on the text 'Tu es Petrus', John Bramhall, Lord Deputy Wentworth's chaplain causes consternation by suggesting that the Church of #Rome might be a 'real' church, just in error, rather than no church (Sidney Sussex/NLI)

4 Aug 1537: Cranmer sends Thomas Cromwell a copy of Thomas Matthew's #Bible in English: "I like it better than any other translation heretofore made". Matthew was code for Miles Coverdale who couldn't be named. (NPG)

St Thomas Aquinas Submitting His Office for Corpus Christi to Pope Urban IV Taddeo di Bartolo c. 1403 In 1264 Urban IV asked St Thomas to write a liturgy for Corpus Christi. Pange Lingua / Tantum Ergo Sacramentum (Philadelphia Museum of Art) Some cardinals are dubious?

Virgin & Child, Austrian, c. 1400 - 1425. I think Jesus is using a yad [ritual pointer] or something very like it to read here.

My hiking dream 💭

Tuesday 4 Aug, Dublin

Few souls receive continual awareness of God, but everyone can learn to live in his presence.

Quote of the day, 5 August: Brother Lawrence

Brother Lawrence offers hope to souls who long to live continually in God’s presence. The unbroken awareness granted to a few remains God’s gift, but ordinary grace can lead every willing soul into a life increasingly shaped by love, adoration, trust, thanksgiving, and self-offering.

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✡️✝️ On August 3, 1942, Edith & Rosa Stein arrived at Amersfoort transit camp with other Catholics of Jewish ancestry arrested by the Nazis. Read Dr. Fritz Lenig’s eyewitness account & the @VaticanNews article about Edith. 🔗https://twp.ai/NSZRuW #EdithStein #Holocaust

🎹 On August 4, 1896, Dijon newspapers praised Elizabeth Catez’s performance of Liszt’s Rhapsodie Espagnole. Saint Elizabeth later recalled those music sessions in a letter to Germaine de Gemeaux. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSZUhx #Catholic #Saints

Portrait of a Woman, 1580 Traditionally attributed to Lavinia Fontana, but since disputed. (Museo di San Domenico, Imola)

Fresco fragment, 'Virgin and Child', Ascribed to Domenico Puligo, 1520s

On August 4, meet Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity at the piano and at her rendezvous in prayer.

Quote of the day, 4 August: St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

Two August 4 milestones recall Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity’s prize-winning years at the piano. In this letter to Germaine de Gemeaux, her former music companion, Elizabeth proposes another kind of rendezvous: meeting each evening in prayer within the presence of the indwelling Trinity. Reading time: 3 minutes Read more →

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The Virgin Mary learns to read, 17thC French (BM Pp,5.121)

3 Aug 1481: Sixtus IV provides William Elphinstone, future founder of #Aberdeen university, to the bishopric of Ross #otd on James III's lobbying. He was never consecrated for Ross and was given Aberdeen on 19 Mar 1483.

Early August

🕯️ Sister Teresia Benedicta knelt before the Blessed Sacrament, then left the choir whispering, “Please pray, Sisters!” Discover the true story of Saint Edith Stein’s arrest: 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSZVDL #EdithStein #NeverAgain

‘The labour of the month of August’, Limoges, workshop of Jean Pénicaud II, c. 1555 (British Museum)

🕯️ In 1942, two witnesses recorded the journeys that brought Saint Titus Brandsma and, nearly five months later, Saint Edith Stein and Rosa Stein to the Amersfoort transit camp. Read both chilling accounts. 🔗 https://twp.ai/NSZF4G #Catholic #Saints

2 Aug 914: d. St Plegmund, Archbishop of #Canterbury, appointee of Alfred - he established four new #English Sees and was the first Archbishop of #Canterbury to travel to #Rome in nearly a century