The Days of Elijah… and Noah


Elijah and Elisha, Michael D. O’Brien

 

IN our day, I believe God has placed the “mantle” of the prophet of Elijah on many shoulders throughout the world.  This “spirit of Elijah” will come, according to Scripture, before a great judgment of the earth:

Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day, to turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with doom. Lo, I will send you Elijah, the prophet, before the day of the LORD comes, the great and terrible day. (Mal 3:23-24)

 

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Last Concert of the Summer


Mark and Lea Mallett in Concert

 

WE have added a concert to the end of our Summer US/Canada tour. This will be our final concert until October:

July 17th, 2007:  Concert, Holy Family Parish, Ontonagon, Michigan, USA, 7:00 pm.

There is no admission; a free-will offering will be taken. Hope to see you there if you are in the area!

 

 

 

Bogged


 

 

MY soul is bogged.

Desire has fled.

I wade through a mud pond, waist deep… prayers, sinking like lead. 

I trudge. I collapse.

            I fall.      

                Fall.

                    Falling.  

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7-7-7

 
"Apocalypse", Michael D. O’Brien

 

TODAY, the Holy Father has released a long anticipated document, bridging the gap between the current Eucharistic Rite (Novus Ordo) and largely forgotten pre-Conciliar Tridentine rite. This continues, and perhaps makes "whole," the work of John Paul II in re-highlighting the Eucharist as the "source and summit" of Christian faith.

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