Lone Star Parson

  It's great to be back in Texas where there's no liturgical dance outside of Austin, just all this big sky threatening rain, yes pl...

  This seems appropriate on the first Sunday of Lent, Kipling's City of Brass: Here was a people whom after their works thou shalt see w...

  Have you read Chesterton's remarkable biography of Dickens? If not, you should and must. Regardless, here's a snapshot, via Lifes...

  We beat back Mohammad's Sea Jihad today , thanks to the miraculous intercession of the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary and her Rosary. A huge...

  The Moslem fleet met its end at Lepanto and Western civilization was saved. Don Juan? Death light of Africa, love light of Spain. A glorio...

  In between cleaning all the guns that I don't have and watching scenes from Tombstone on continuous loop, I look forward to Maundy Th...

  Some of you may be pleased to know that this is a short Sunday sermon. Here it  is : ...the characteristic of the present age is a craving...

There we were in the church hall after Mass in Mission #2, just enjoying the fellowship which flows naturally in the Mystical Body of ...

Europe, and by extension the West, is the Faith, a Faith which is increasingly, vehemently under attack. The burning of Notre Dame serv...

The eternal suns and systems, Solid and silent all, To me are stars of an instant, Only the fires that fail From God's ...

Here at the Compound we wish you all the best for a great St. Patrick's Day. Get yourself a pint of Guinness and watch Leprechaun...

All too soon the retreat was over and everyone drove off into the metrosprawl to their various destinations. You need a retreat after...

Some call her The Old Boot , others are less flattering, but one thing's for sure, Hillary Clinton seems to live a charmed life t...

We're advancing in a different direction, which means getting on I35E and driving to Montserrat Retreat House for the annual dioce...

This one's for LL . The Ballad of East and West, by Kipling. Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lif...

ISON Out of respect for the person who said "a little Chesterton can go a long way," here's a short bit of GKC: &qu...

Battle of Lepan to Inspired by Snarky Basterd , I thought I'd better post this, from the Battle of Lepanto by G.K. Chesterton. But ...