Edmund Mitchell is a Catholic youth minister with a passion for Jesus, evangelization, and rugby - especially when all three happen at once. For now he enjoys being a Catholic hipster, until too many people start enjoying it with him, then he'll probably go mainstream. He blogs over at EdmundMitchell.com and tweets at https://twitter.com/EdmundMitchell. Edmund is a Franciscan University alum who studied Theology and Catechesis.
Waiting on four pepperoni HARs (hot and readys) to be…well…ready (Little Ceasar’s was back-logged) I moseyed over to the bar next door to find a bar bathroom. I found and entered a small closet with two urinals and a stall and an older gentleman followed close behind and grabbed a urinal before I did. Now [...]
If all of America can agree on one thing, it is that the Boston bombing was a deeply evil act. And if all of America could agree on the one question that needs answering from those responsible for these depraved acts, it is, “Why?“I sat around a dinner table recently with a bunch of Catholic friends [...]
“…this book can be transformed from a silent instrument, like a valuable violin resting on a velvet cloth, into an instrument that sounds and rouses hearts.” Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa 1st Advent Sermon to the Papal Household So maybe you’re one of those Catholics hipsters – hip young adult devoutly committed to Orthodoxy, sworn ally to the pope, [...]
If there is one Catholic website out there that, in my opinion, more people should be following and reading, it is By Way of Beauty. Matthew generously agreed to allow me to pick his brain, and he provided some great insights on culture, beauty, and evangelization. The greatest part about ByWayofBeauty.com is that it is [...]
This Monday of Holy Week we heard St. John’s account of the first Last Supper. Christ prepared us then for today, Holy Thursday, THE Last Supper, and now is urging us: “Remember Lazarus”. In every town Jesus travels through he encounters sinners and the sick. Bethany is no exception. Simon the Leper lives in Bethany. Mary [...]
My friend Jon and I came up with a crazy idea: what if everyone around the world took pictures of Holy Week and the beauty of God, made a #hashtag (#CaptureEaster) and posted them all up on one website? Starting this Palm Sunday, join us in our attempt to flood the internet with pics [...]
Michael, I’m going to jump right into the Catholic excitement about your post today. On behalf of all Catholics (and any Christians for that matter) everywhere: Thank you. Thank you for an honest reaction to a moment of worship, and thank you for blurring the lines of denomination and hostile opposition by being unafraid to [...]
Scars Last summer I heard a Priest tell this story during his homily of a time he visited a sick man in the hospital. He went to the hospital multiple times and would sit and talk for an hour or so with the man to keep him company. In the room with this sick man [...]
As my good friend Kathleen put it so eloquently over the phone at 8am this morning: “I feel like a little kid who woke up to find out Santa isn’t real!” Pope Benedict announced early today that he is stepping down from his position as Vicar of Christ, officially as of Feb. 28th. Director of [...]
I want to make sure all you great Catholics out there are aware of what is, in my opinion, a few of the best Catholic debates of all time – Fr. Mitch Pacwa on the John Ankerberg Show. I learned a heck of a lot from Fr. Mitch Pacwa watching him handle these tough Protestant [...]
If you want to be a good Catholic, you gotta read your Bible. But the Church advises us: ”sacred tradition, Sacred Scripture and the teaching authority of the Church… are so linked and joined together that one cannot stand without the others” (Dei Verbum Par. 10). Combining Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition is a deeply Catholic [...]
Mary Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, Georges de La Tour You will die. A friend of mine sells life insurance. He told me that every time someone new sits in his office, he asks them: What are your chances of dying? The poor soul will usually guess something like a 2% chance, or maybe even somewhere between 5% and 10% (the realists). [...]
This is not how you use dice. You roll dice. In games with dice, the dice and chance are the masters of the outcome. We become willingly dependent upon them to tell us the fate of our turn with a roll. In a way, this is part of the fun of games of chance. Where [...]
Why do we love movie romances so much, and why do we desire for the love stories in movies to happen to us? Really, why do all of us want to be in love like the movies? “But in the movies they’re not in love at all…” We can never be in love like [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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