Sep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church
Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...
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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 2, 20214 min read
Sep 25 Rudolph Otto and the Idea of the Holy
Today in 1869 we remember the birth near Hannover in Germany of Rudolph Otto. He is now regarded as one of the most influential...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 23 - Khomiakov, Russian Theologian of Community
Today in 1860 we remember the Death from cholera of the Russian theologian Alexei Khomiakov, while treating peasants during an epidemic....
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 25, 20214 min read
Sep 17 Adrienne von Speyr
Today we remember the death of the Swiss doctor and mystic Adrienne von Speyr. Born and raised during the early twentieth century in a...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Sep 6 Blaise Pascal, Jansenism and Salvation
Today in 1657 the Vatican placed Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters on the Index of Prohibited Books. The Index Librorum Prohibitorum...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Sep 1 Fr Dowling's Spiritual Exercises and the AA movement
Edward Dowling was born today in 1898. He would be ordained a priest and become the advisor to Bill Wilson who founded Alcoholic...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 2, 20214 min read
Aug 31 - Grunewald, Artist of the Crucifixion
Today we remember the German Renaissance painter Matthias Grunewald who died in 1528. Now famous for his religious art that display...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20213 min read
Aug 21 Adam Gifford and the Gifford Lectures
Its 1885, we are in Scotland, where today Lord Adam Giffords’ will was finalised. A large part of his substantial fortune made from a...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 12, 20213 min read
Aug 12 Golden Roses & Aparecida
Today in 1967 Pope Paul VI granted a Golden rose to Aparecida Cathedral in Brazil. The Golden Rose is an ornament, which popes have...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 6, 20215 min read
Aug 5 Bill W & Alcoholics Anonymous
Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 27, 20215 min read
July 26 Padre Pio
Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 24, 20214 min read
July 24 Christine, the Beguines & the Bollandists
Today in 1242 the mystic Christine von Stommeln was born near Cologne. We look at her unusual life - and how it took her to the...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 13, 20218 min read
July 13 C.S Lewis - A Grief Observed
Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 25, 20216 min read
June 26 Beauty, Truth & Goodness - Hans Urs von Balthazar
Today in 1988 we remember the death of one of the greatest theological minds of the 20th Century. Hans Urs Von Balthazar died just two...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 21, 20214 min read
June 18 Laudato Si - Caring for our common home
Today in 2015, the ground-breaking encyclical Laudato Si was published. Building on the body of the Church’s social teaching it ...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 8, 20217 min read
June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul
At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 6, 20218 min read
June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia
The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...
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Jun 1, 20213 min read
June 2 Anthony De Mello
A Jesuit priest from India and psychotherapist who became widely known for his books on spirituality, integrating ancient eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
May 23, 20213 min read
May 24 John Wesley's Conversion
In Aldersgate, London, Anglican priest John Wesley had an experience in the middle of a spiritual crisis which lead to establishment of...
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Apr 29, 20214 min read
Apr 30 Divine Mercy and the Polish Mystic
Today in the year 2000, the Polish Mystic Faustina Kowalska was declared a saint in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine...
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