Category: The Pope

• Is My Enchiridion Indulgentiarum Account Balanced?

  [Purgatory. Credit: Shown Above] Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. ~~Patrick Egan Fantastical Essays v. 1 (2024) In Saranac Lake, New York, on a warm and humid day in 2017, an elderly woman crossed Church Street safely because of something Sister John James said to me in 1957. This was no small feat because…

  patrickjegan

  April 11, 2024

  Adirondacks, brotherly love,, Childhood, death, Everyday Events, Melancholy Thoughts, North Country Life, owego ny, Premonitions, Religion, satire, The Pope

  #Crusades, #Eternaldemnation, #gooddeeds, #Heaven, #Hell, #Indulgences, #PopeUrbanII, #Purgatory, #Salvation, #Saranaclakeny, Christianity, heaven, hell, jesus, Purgatory

• It’s The End, But It’s Far From Over

  I wish, I wish, I wish in vain I wish, I wish I was a youth again But a youth again I can never be Till apples grow on an ivy tree. ~~”Love Is Pleasing” The Dubliners [The Bridge of Sighs, Venice. Photo is mine] I didn’t think I could do it. I worried that…

  patrickjegan

  June 24, 2023

  Adriatic Sea, Adriatic Sea Cruise, art, death, England, environmental degradation, History, In Search of Lost Time, Kennet & Avon Canal, Melancholy Thoughts, Memories, non-fiction, Objects of Beauty, Paris France, Pompeii, Real Personal History, Rome Italy, seniors, The Pope, Travels, Venice

  aging, Aging & Walking, Canterbury England, Dorset, England, Final Adventures

• Rome: Antiquity, Beauty & Faith

  Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her. ~ ~ G. K. Chesterton [One of the iconoclastic images in the world. The Colosseum of Rome. What is not so famous is the construction equipment in the foreground. Photo is mine.] Part One: The City As A…

  patrickjegan

  May 22, 2023

  art, Colosseum of Rome, Films and filmmaking, History, Holding onto the Past, Memories, non-fiction, Real Personal History, Religion, Rome Italy, The Pope, Travels

  Roman Ruins, Rome Italy, The Pope, Trevi Fountain, Vatican City