Running is an easy form of exercise: it’s free, you don’t need anyone else, and you can do it rain or shine (if you don’t mind getting wet or course). It makes you feel good and, if outside, gets you in contact with nature. It can also be a way to connect with the Creator [...]
Love. What does it mean to love someone or something? How are we called to love? What does today, Good Friday teach us about love? With the events of this past week weighing on my heart and the unbearable division of Christians I have witnessed all around me (most notably in new Facebook profile pictures [...]
In the Liturgical Year, we’ve reached the day which our sanctification was bought by the price of God’s blood. We often dwell upon the physical side of Our Lord’s Passion, but I thought maybe we could go into the thoughts and pains which Jesus suffered for us that sometimes go unnoticed. Let us then go [...]
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 [...]
It was 2006, the time the Da Vinci Code movie was released. Debates buzzed in Catholic blogosphere, while the billboards advertising the movie were displayed throughout the city. It was hard not to see Leonardo’s Last Supper and not think “Dan Brown”. But another feature of the painting caught my attention. This, and all the [...]
In roughly 24 hours, the Sacred Triduum will begin. During these three days, the Church commemorates in a solemn manner the Passion, Death, and Burial of her Spouse, Our Blessed Lord. These days are a time to enter into more fervent prayer. For those of us who wonder “Where did Lent go?” and feel that [...]
In C.S. Lewis’s The Magician’s Nephew—the story which “shows how all the comings and goings between our world and Narnia first began”—a conniving character called Uncle Andrew stumbles into the world of Narnia at the very hour of its creation. He finds the land like Paradise before the Fall, and in the rich soil of this second [...]
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 [...]
She was born on August 25, 1905, the third of a large family of ten children. When she was twenty-five, after a long and grueling search for a convent to take her in, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy. Can you live a life like she did? Everything this sister did [...]
I should clarify; I love the Internet. Given this personal sweet-tooth for the World Wide Web though, I’ve reflected for some time about the properly Catholic stance toward the Internet. Clearly, we need to use it to evangelize. However, what is it about Web 2.0, the age of comboxes, social media, and hyper-connectedness that strikes [...]
Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, SJ of Buenos Aires is now Pope Francis. His simple name, two syllables, inspired by a simple Saint, communicates the spirit of this humble man who cooked his own meals in Buenos Aires, prefers to take public transportation, and consistently refused a place in the Roman Curia (until he was pressed [...]
This was not the post that I was going to publish today. When I realized a few weeks ago that my “posting day” might fall during the first days of the Conclave I knew what I would write about. I would write about my “reversion” to the Catholic Church 7 years ago. I would explain [...]
Watching the Church for the past several years, it’s pretty obvious that we live in much different times than before. With indifference in the modern youth, we run the risk of losing our Faith. When the time comes for us to defend the Church, how many will be faithful? A good way to provide for the Church, [...]
The Strange World of European Post-Christian Christianity
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 [...]
Do you ever get the feeling, around the middle of Lent, that you’re dragging? The zeal that typically fills me at the beginning and again during Holy Week tends to dwindle. I complain about the sacrifices I’ve chosen instead of try to embrace them, and I wonder if I’m getting anywhere. Two weeks ago, I [...]
As human beings we are an emotionally fragile bunch. That however is not a bad thing. Indeed, it is our emotional state that most readily separates us from the animal kingdom. We perceive love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear, and we can deliver those positive or negative emotions to others in the way we [...]
Routine. It’s something that I strive to maintain in all areas of my life. Whether that is the time I eat meals, pray, shower or exercise, I often thrive on having a set pattern of doing things, at least on the weekdays. Although my routine can be beneficial, I can often allow it to get [...]
Imagine the great good that could be done if, instead of considering life less valuable or without meaning because of deteriorating health or decreased physical mobility, we would all accept the sufferings that befall us and offer that which we endure to our crucified Lord for the salvation of souls.
Though the vestments be polyester and pinstriped, our God is glorious. His house the gate of Heaven, where He dwells in His glorious majesty, though it be made of concrete and plastic. Though the Lord speaks through a lisp, His word will shatter kings in the day of His wrath. Though the microphone cuts in [...]
The lot falls upon me to post in this website today, February 28, 2013, the last day of Pope Benedict XVI’s pontificate. It is also my lot to have lived through the start of his pontificate, and now, it shall be my lot to live through the conclave to elect his next successor. Twice I [...]
Here we are about two weeks into Lent. Some of us are doing great with our Lenten penances; others of us have petered out or never figured out what to do for Lent this year in the first place. This is for those “others of us.” It is not too late to start Lent. Should [...]
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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