tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501603353476337948.post3554193580471746282..comments2023-06-27T14:34:29.650+01:00Comments on freeranger: Animula vagula blandulaMartin Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02543035178806387386noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5501603353476337948.post-88752471045730405992008-08-21T17:44:00.000+01:002008-08-21T17:44:00.000+01:00PS from freeranger: I sent a link to this blog pos...PS from freeranger: I sent a link to this blog post to the schoolmaster who introduced me to "Animula, vagula, blandula". A monk, his last advice to me when I left school was "Keep the faith". <BR/><BR/>Fr. Patrick Barry OSB now lives in retirement in the Abbey of St Mary and St Louis, Missouri: though I had his email address, I hardly expected a response. Nevertheless, he has written: "Delighted to hear from you. Thank you for taking the trouble to write to a 90-year-old relic... Though no expert in such things I ventured into your 'blog' and found it rich and varied, but rather beyond my reach in the simplicity of old age... I am now fairly disabled after major cancer surgery, but still alive in mind and heart and nourished still by the prayer and faith I seem to have recommended to you."Martin Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02543035178806387386noreply@blogger.com