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John Keble
JOHN KEBLE, PRIEST, POET, RENEWER OF THE CHURCH (29 MAR 1866) John Keble, born 1792, ordained Priest in 1816, tutor at Oxford from 1818 to 1823, published in 1827 a book of poems called THE CHRISTIAN YEAR, containing poems for the Sundays and Feast Days of the Church Year. The book sold many copies, and […]
Meet St. Patrick
Allow me to introduce myself. You may have heard of me. My name is Patrick. March 17 is St. Patrick’s day. But before everybody celebrates another one, I decided to come back 1,500 years to set the record straight about who I am and what I’ve done. You see, people say all kinds of strange […]
John Donne
JOHN DONNE, PRIEST, POET, AND PREACHER (31 MAR 1631) “All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, one chapter is torn out of the book and translated into a better language. And every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators. Some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, […]
Cure D’ars
JOHN-BAPTIST VIANNEY, PASTOR (4 AUGUST 1859) Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney (better known as the Cure’ d’Ars, or curate of Ars) was the son of a peasant farmer, born in France in 1786, three years before the beginning of the French Revolution. He wished to become a priest, but his studies were hindered, first by the poverty of […]
Boreham: George Whitfield’s Text
George Whitefield’s Text – John 3:3 F.W. Boreham George Whitefield’s (1714-1770) zeal for evangelization carried him across the Atlantic between Great Britain and America thirteen times. He passed back and forth between the two continents as though they were a pair of rural villages at a time when travel was a very dangerous undertaking. It […]
F W Boreham: The Quest
Is there, in all literature, a more sweet, a more winsome, a more pathetic figure than little Naomi, the daughter of Israel Ben Oliel? She is, of course, the heroine of Sir Hall Caine’s Scapegoat. She is blind and deaf and dumb. She is lonely too, terribly lonely. Her father was lonely enough, for he […]
God In Our Midst By Richard Rohr
Transformed by Easter By Richard Rohr, O.F.M. Christian history reaches its crescendo point in the Resurrection of Jesus. The risen Jesus is the final revelation of the heart of God-a God who teaches love rather than hate, forgiveness rather than blame, nonviolence rather than violence. Recall Jesus’ encounters with his disciples after his Resurrection. He […]
Ignatius Loyola
[ This is the short version. You can read the long version at: . ] IGNATIUS LOYOLA, MYSTIC, EDUCATOR, PREACHER, AND FOUNDER OF THE JESUITS (31 JULY 1556) In^igo de Recalde de Loyola, youngest of thirteen (one of my sources says eleven) children of Don Beltran Ya’n^ez de Loyola and Maria Sa’enz de Licona y […]
Thomas A Kempis
THOMAS A KEMPIS, PRIEST, MONK, AND WRITER (24 JULY 1471) Thomas Hammerken (or Hammerlein — both mean “little hammer”) was born at Kempen (hence the “A Kempis”) in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around 1380. He was educated by a religious order called the Brethren of the Common Life, and in due course joined […]
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal died 19 August 1662. He is remembered on 21 August. Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand (45:47 N 3:05 E), France, on 19 June 1623. His mother died when he was three, and he was home-schooled by his father, who had connections with Mersenne, Fermat, and Descartes. In his late teens (or possibly […]
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