Lone Star Parson

  The great Feast of the Nativity is almost upon us and lights went on at the Compound after a traditional trip to Walmart for last minute C...

  Advent, the coming of Christ. Here's a prayer, from the 1928 BCP, obvs: Almighty God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of...

  Here we are in Dallas, putting up Christmas and it's pretty minimal this year, maybe less is more. But I tell you this, more was more ...

  Worshipers at Evensong in Trinity College Cambridge were scandalized by a sermon claiming that Jesus was trans, with some leaving the cha...

  Ukrainians at Bakhmut And more Verdun on left The people driving this slaughter deserve the greatest penalty.  UKR forces at Bakhmut have,...

  Are you incapable of serious thought, so-called 'LSP'?  Yes, but Fulton Sheen's different. Here's an Advent reflection:   ...

  O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here, Until the Son of God appear. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emma...

  Here's an Advent reflection by Austin Farrer, from Crown of the Year : Our journey sets out from God in our creation, and returns to G...

  I went for a walk to the old Shamrock tonight, and nothing much had changed except for the lights. They were on, in all their Christmas gl...

  The drive to Dallas was easy. Roadworks, three lane to one lane traffic jams, and being stuck behind a Commie Jeep with COEXIST on its bum...

  I always post this short reflection in Advent because it's awesome. From my Godfather, Austin Farrer : Our journey sets out from God ...

It all starts off at the Tree Gulag, where captive conifers languish beneath the harsh glare of sodium arc lights. There they are, line...

If you follow the strange new modernistic lectionary you'll have heard the Magnificat this morning at Mass, Mary's exultant hym...

It's the first Sunday of Advent, and we're getting ready to celebrate the birth of Christ at Christmas and preparing to...

This small farming community's all lit up, literally and figuratively; I know this because I've seen it. And you know what? I...

With Advent we look to the past in wonder, to the coming together of God and man in the person of an infant, Gloria in excelsis Deo!...

If you follow the newfangled innovation that is the lectionary cooked up by "experts" in the '60s, you'll have noti...

One of the Team took time off from cleaning his FNFAL to send this in; pay attention, heathen: Coming with the shepherds to this my...

Listen up, you lot. It's not Christmas yet, it's Advent, and you've probably forgotten this so I'm posting it again. ...

"So what do you do, when you go to the big city, so-called 'LSP'?" I hear you asking, with an edge in your voice. Goo...