A beguine community rose up by the St. Gertrude’s Abbey. This Small Beguinage is mentioned for the first time in 1272. The district consists of a street and two blind alleys where women who served in the nearby abbey lived. The small beguinage had few financial resources and the buildings rapidly fell into decay. The [...]
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The Small Beguinage
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2015
A tree is known by its fruit; we by our deeds. A good deed is never lost; one who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and one who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 12th 2015
Knowing that their past actions may try to overwhelm them, the devotees must be prepared to combat them. God will give them the strength: His Name will be an impenetrable armor.
Swami Brahmananda
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 5th 2015
We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
The Buddha
16 Comments CherryPie on Jun 28th 2015
He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love.
1 John 4:8
8 Comments CherryPie on Jun 14th 2015
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Saint Francis of Assisi
25 Comments CherryPie on May 31st 2015
Synopsis from the book cover:
Truth is stranger than fiction. And nowhere in literature is it so apparent as in this classic work, The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest. This autobiography of a Jesuit priest in Elizbethan England is most remarkable document and John Gerard, its author, a most remarkable priest in a time when to [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2015
