Quotation: John Baillie

A high degree of probability is the most that can be claimed for any scientific result. Yet, the strange fact is that I have more confidence in what common sense and pre-scientific experience tell me about my natural environment than in any of the things I have learned from science. I have, for example, a greater degree of assurance of the honesty and loyalty of some of my friends than I have of the validity of any scientific doctrine and still more secure is my conviction that honesty and loyalty are things required of us.

Professor John Baillie, quoted in George Carey, Why I Believe in a Personal God: The Credibility of Faith in a Doubting Culture (Wheaton, Illinois: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1989), p. 20

Musica Liturgica

To come to church
Without a hymnal
Is nothing short
Of crymnal.

The Gashlycrumb Tinies!

Blogger rinabeana at Poem of the Day posts Edward Gorey's macabre children's classic.

The Reluctant Draggard

has been updated, with poems by Novalis and George Herbert, with a psalm from the Latin Vulgate, with three meditations from Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and with a prayer of St John of Damascus.

Feast of All Saints

A Catholic website dedicated to prayer.

I remember visiting this site years ago, but rediscovered it recently after googling "Carlo Carretto," the 20th-century Italian spiritual writer.

Apparently, the late Gerard Serafin did much of the work on this website -- Serafin, of the much-missed Catholic Page for Lovers.