Venite Prandete

  GK CHESTERTON Died 14th JUNE 1936 The Wise Men Step softly, under snow or rain, To find the place where men can pray; The way is all so very plain, That we may lose the way. GK Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in Kensington, London, the son of Marie Louise, née Grosjean, and Edward Chesterton (1841–1922) and died on this day 1936. He was baptised into the Church of England, though his family themselves were irregularly practising Unitarians. (1) His intellectual curiosity led him to dabble in different beliefs, including the occult, Spiritualism and atheism. His later perspective on the human condition was reflected in his observation that “all the optimism of the age had been false and disheartening for this reason, that it had always been trying to prove that we fit into the world. The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world.” (2) His comment on the anti-Catholic accounts he absorbed as a young man and which he unquestioningly (at...

  CATHOLIC MARTYRS OF THE REFORMATION- DIED THIS DAY: THOMAS SCRYVEN – CARTHUSIAN; DIED 15th JUNE 1537 THOMAS REDYING – CARTHUSIAN; DIED 16th JUNE 1537 RALPH GRIMSTON – LAYMAN; DIED 15th JUNE 1593 PETER SNOW – PRIEST; DIED 15th JUNE 1593 THOMAS SCRYVEN AND THOMAS REDYING – CARTHUSIAN MONKS: Their biography is taken completely from Wikipedia: The Carthusian Martyrs of London were the monks of the London Charterhouse, the monastery of the Carthusian Order in central London, who were put to death by the English state, under the rule of Henry VIII in a period lasting from the 4 May 1535 till the 20 September 1537. The method of execution was hanging, disembowelling while still alive and then quartering. Others were imprisoned and left to starve to death. The group also includes two monks who were brought to that house from the Charterhouses of Beauvale and Axeholme and similarly dealt with. The total was 18 men, all of whom have been formally recognized by the Catholic Church as martyr...

  SISTER MIRIAM MICHAEL STIMSON OP CATHOLIC SCIENTISTS DIED 15th JUNE 2002 Marian Emma Stimson was born into a devout Catholic family in Chicago on December 14, 1913. She had an interest in health and medicine – her brother suffered from polio, she had a sister with a heart condition and her mother had such high blood pressure after she gave birth to twins that she suffered from memory loss. In 1935, she joined the Adrian Dominican Sisters, taking the name Sister Miriam Michael Stimson OP. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from Siena Heights College in 1936. She continued her studies at the Institutum Divi Thomae in Cincinnatti, where she received her M.S. in 1939. She then joined the chemistry faculty at Siena Heights College, simultaneously working toward her Ph.D. at Institutum Divi Thomae, which she completed in 1948. She earned her Doctorate and engaged in teaching and research, studying cancer and wound healing treatments. Notably, she was instrumental in the invention of Prep...

  ST ANTHONY OF PADUA 13th JUNE St Anthony’s feast day was not celebrated yesterday as it fell on a Sunday, but we cannot let his feast day pass without recognising this charming saint, who achieved so much during his lifetime, who was an incredible scholar and orator, but whose humility is such that he now devotes his time in heaven to, (lovingly, unbegrudgingly), finding our mislaid car keys, the lost beloved toys of your six-year–old daughter, forgotten passwords and bar coasters with hastily scribbled telephone numbers. St Anthony was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and priest, who was born to a wealthy family in Lisbon and died in Padua, Italy. He was noted for his powerful preaching, expert knowledge of Scripture, selfless devotion to the poor and sick and was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII. He initially had sought to engage in mission work in Morocco but became sick and returned to Europe, where he was assigned to a rural hermitage of Sao Paolo in Romagna, ...