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The Tiber Swim Team?

Michael McFarland Campbell

I’ve a number of tshirts that proclaim all sorts of things about myself on the front or on the back. I was looking for others and came across this one. It is quite appropriate – although some of us have had the image of us paddling across the Tiber with our breviaries held above our heads, and then sitting saying the Office on the other side, with a pile of books to supply everyone with, and a pile of towels for everyone to be dried off. I wonder will John Whitehead be seen wearing one soon? Continue reading The Tiber Swim Team?

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Maxim for the day – June 21

Michael McFarland Campbell

The third degree may be called the angelic life; this is the life which they come to, who, having been exercised for a long time in the taming of their own passions, receive from God a quiet, tranquil, and almost angelic life, even in this world, feeling no trouble or repugnance in anything. – St Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome Continue reading Maxim for the day – June 21

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Maxim for the day – June 19

Michael McFarland Campbell

In the spiritual life there are three degrees: the first may be called the animal life; this is the life of those who run after sensible devotion, which God generally gives to beginners, to allure them onwards by that sweetness to the spiritual life, just as an animal is drawn on by a sensible object. – St Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome Continue reading Maxim for the day – June 19

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