Berkeley, Monday, January 5, 2026 2:38 AM Feast day: January 14 Saints whose feast is on that day: Saint Gregory Nazianzen St. Felix of Nola, Priest This is according to Franciscan Media and Vatican News. From the sources above, only a biography from Saint Gregory Nazianzen is available at Franciscan media. I will do the […]
Novena to St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton
Berkeley, Friday, December 26, 2025 1:18 am [Update Saturday, December 27, 2025 0:05 PM] Feast day: January 4, 2026 The church remembers on January 4 the lives, and ask for the intersection, of Saint Angela of Foligno, a Franciscan, and St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton. Since we are living in the the USA, would you […]
Assessment of right and wrong
Berkeley, Friday, December 19, 2025 4:53 PM (Wurster Hall 4th floor studio). Confidence is what thing. Only the heart knows what is right and wrong. The next question would be if is it a matter of confidence, conscience, uncomfort, pressure for having to do something, but although not necessarily distracted engaging in additional conversations, while […]
Seriousness
Berkeley, Tuesday, December 16, 2025 8:04 PM Ok. I am going against intuition to write here, instead to finish chapter 4, which then is against me. So then, why to just discharge something here. Sometimes, that have been the purpose of my blog. I know the first sentence I could delete, but I do not […]
Udienza Generale 12/10/25 Pope Leo XIV
Berkeley, Thursday, December 11, 2025 00:52 AM It is great that the transcript from the ongoing Pope’s Catechesis from every Wednesday is published online. However, why the gospel reading passage is not provided there? One would need to extract that from the video, also linked below. https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/it/audiences/2025/documents/20251210-udienza-generale.html OK. Update. Extracted from the audio in the […]
(M) Just with some inspiration to write publicly today!
Alright, the main author of this blog mentioned the possibility of a second writer starting to write in this blog… so this is the case this time: now it is Miracle giving it a try! I should start by saying that nowadays, when I write, I dedicate it to God. In fact, all my writing […]
Time!
Berkeley, Saturday, December 13, 2025 1 pm The need of being serious about next day, upcoming tasks, and events. Sometimes, we might be on a mission. A book, even if it is a fictional book, it has a degree of autobiography. There were several days that days Frodo, and Sam, slept very little. Frodo had […]
Breviary
Berkeley, Thursday, December 11, 2025 00:13 am Something to learn more about, in terms of background. One of the references is below: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02768b.htm [Excellent Catholic Encyclopedia. Here to link to read. I just skimmed it through] Other references: https://ibreviary.com/m2/breviario.php [Best online source for praying the liturgy of the hours] https://catholic-resources.org/LoH/ https://grace.gtu.edu/search/X?+General+instruction+of+the+Liturgy+of+the+hours&SORT=DX [Consult those books at […]
Blessed Mary Frances Schervier
Berkeley, December 9, 2025 12:23 PM Feast day: December 15 Novena: My understanding, so far, feel free to edit, is that Blessed Mary Frances Schervier was born to a distinguish family in Aachen, which is currently in Germany, near the border to the Netherlands and Belgium, I believe, and when she was born near the […]
Angelus Prayer
Berkeley, Monday, December 8, 2025 7:10 PM Every Sunday the Pope prays from a Vatican’s balcony towards Saint’s Pietro Square he angelus / regina caelli prayers. I believe it is important to try to listen the Pope, or a speaker in general, in their native language. I talk a bit more about this towards the […]