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Durendal

Let none e’er wield you that from the foe would flee.

Recent Posts

  • Urgent missive from Screwtape – Easter, 2019
  • Middle-earth Revisited
  • I – Modernity and one’s Children
  • II – Modernism: The Philosophical Assumptions
  • III – The Modernist Philosophical Effect on Society
  • IV – Modernity: the rage of “isms”
  • V – Non-Modern View
  • VI – Confront Modernity with Natural Law
  • VII – Modernity and Music
  • VIII – Modernity and Art
  • IX – Modernity and Literature
  • X – Modernity – Where to from here?
  • Memoirs
  • The True Story of Fatima
  • The Fall of Mankind
  • That Horrible Word, “Sin”
  • The Afterlife: Heaven, Hell or other?
  • “The Game of Thrones” and the “Middle Ages”
  • Gabriel, the Archangel
  • The Incredibles and The Resurrection

Pages

  • The True Story of Fatima
    • Introduction
    • Lucia, Francesco, Jacinta and the Marto Family
    • The Three Angelic Visitations
    • The First Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Second Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Third Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Three Children Imprisoned
    • The Fourth Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Fifth Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Children Examined
    • Portugal Assembles for a Miracle
    • The Sixth Appearance of Our Lady
    • The Miracle of the Sun
    • The Children Examined Again
    • The Cost of Heaven – Vandalism, mockery and persecution
    • The Chapel
    • The Cost of Heaven – Francesco’s offering
    • The Cost of Heaven – Jacinta’s offering
    • The Cost of Heaven – Lucia’s offering
    • The First Pilgrimage Statue and Official Persecution Begins
    • The Chapel is Bombed
    • Miracles at the Cova da Iria
    • Lucia – a Dorothean Nun
    • Official Recognition by the Catholic Hierarchy
    • Appendix
  • About Durendal
  • About Michael Phillips
  • Memoirs
    • To Grasses Greener
    • The Green Grass of Home
    • High School Days
    • Our Little Family Home
    • Drifting Along
    • Waking Up
    • From Anglo-Catholic to Catholic
    • Bishopdale’s Nappy Lane
    • Vatican II and the Suburban Commune
    • The Cultural Revolution
    • Nappy Lane Hippies
    • Arcadia in Pahiatua
    • Life at Ballance
    • The Country School Teacher
    • Back to the Bay
    • Deepening Roots
    • The Kaikoura UFO
    • Making a Telescope
    • Halley’s Comet BBQ 1986
    • The Amiga Dream
    • Battling the Cultural Wars in the Classroom
    • Battling the Cultural Wars in Our Parish
    • The History Teacher
    • The History of Art Teacher
    • The InfoTech Teacher
    • Parting Threads
    • A Budding Medievalist
    • Searching for Musical Grace
    • From Godzone to the Land of Oz
    • Home at Last
    • Pilgrimage
    • Truly Beautiful New Zealand
    • Accepting Retirement
    • Pilgrimage: Our Second Trip to Italy
    • Truly Beautiful New Zealand

Categories

  • Biography
  • Catholic Belief
  • Modernity
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Recent Comments

  • lindsay phillips on High School Days
  • Fr Ian Nield on From Anglo-Catholic to Catholic
  • MikePh on The Green Grass of Home
  • Jim Hay-Mackenzie on The Green Grass of Home
  • Rosalind on The Incredibles and The Resurrection

Links

  1. Kindle Books by Patrimonium Publishing
  2. Rorate Caeli
  3. Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
  4. The New Liturgical Movement
  5. Edward Feser's Philosophy Blog
  6. The Roman Forum
  7. The Josias
  8. Sancrucensis
  9. The Orthosphere
  10. Don Colacho's Aphorisms
  11. Throne and Altar
  12. The Remnant Newspaper
  13. John Rao's Writings

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