When the English writer and artist Caryll Houselander was thirteen years of age, she had an experience that brought her face to face with the suffering of the world. The year was late 1914 or early 1915, and Caryll was a boarder at a convent school...
On January 30 Alfred Delp wrote his last note on a prison order form to the two Mariannes: "Pray and have faith. Thank you. Dp"...
As he sat waiting in his cell, Delp’s creative energies were again released and he wrote meditations on the Lord’s Prayer which, as he told Luise, was written almost entirely in handcuffs, and “Come Holy Spirit”, which is the Sequence for Pentecost Sunday. To Marianne Hapig/Marianne Pünder Good...
"Darkness shall not frighten us nor distress wear us out; we will go on waiting, watching and praying until the star rises." ---from Alfred Delp's Christmas meditation, 1944 After several postponements, the date for Delp's trial had been fixed at January 9. He was to be...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder Good people! Greetings to you and God’s powerful protection for the new year. We can’t wish ourselves anything more or less this year. God already knows what he wants from us in the year ahead. Tomorrow is the feast day of...
To Marianne Hapig and Marianne Pünder I heard about the negative results of the efforts regarding Sperr. So we’ll have to start all over again. Put a piece of wood or some such thing between the bread so he’ll have to pay attention. Keep trying to ask...
[caption id="attachment_505" align="alignleft" width="300"] The schloss, or main house of the Kreisau estate. The estate now houses the Krsysowa Foundation for European Understanding.[/caption] The loosely knit, so-called “Kreisau” group was named after the estate in Silesia (now part of Poland) of the same name, which belonged...
A CBC commentator referred to today's 50th anniversary of the "infamous" march on Washington. Surely that march is famous, not infamous. "Infamous" refers to an event or an action that is considered evil or monstrous. Thus freedom marches become famous, and the segregation laws of the...
In one of the most recent episodes of the popular British series, "Foyle's War", Foyle asks, "May I speak to whomever is in charge here?" "Whomever" should be "whoever" in this sentence. The reason for this is that "whoever is in charge here" is a subordinate...
An article in a recent New Yorker contains the following sentence: "A range of other provisions were also suggested." In the above sentence, range is the subject. Because range is a singular noun, the verb should be was. So the sentence should read as follows: "A range of other provisions...