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  I don't know anyone who's not feeling the financial crunch these days, but even if the economy were doing well and everyone were f...

Originally a Catholic country, Germany, like many other European nations, has retained many of its ancient liturgical year traditions. On th...

Check the date today. If you know... you know! Five years old.  Time sure flies!!

  November day Half -past three A gypsy cloud Stopped in for tea Above photo: Outside my window in Reit im Winkl, Bavaria a day or two ago....

On the feast day of a saint conspicuous here in Bavaria! You see him all over the place -- even on the door of Kevvy and Ina's wood stov...

These are the three days of the year when we see a fucused criss-cross over the barriers among the Church Militant (us), the Church Sufferin...

  Morning is Broken Sunrise from my balcony at about 9 a.m. Word Prompt this Friday: Morning Funny that this should be the topic for Five-Mi...

  From The Liturgical Year (by  Abbot Gueranger O.S.B) Today the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Simon and Jude whose names occur t...

You know that scene in The Fellowship of the Ring when Sam stops in the middle of a cornfield and makes note of the fact that they are gett...

 Most Americans are familiar with the scene from The Sound of Music , where the Von Trapp family barely slips out from under the nose of the...

About a ten minute walk around the corner and a little ways up the foothills.  No trolls under any of the bridges. Sophia throws rocks every...