A. Carlton Sallet has posted a prayer for bloggers. Lord, we ask your blessings be poured out upon we who blog, that we may be given an abundance of the cardinal virtues to guide our hands: fortitude, to suffer fools gladly; temperance, to tame our flames; prudence, to know when enough is enough and justice, [...]
It’s about time too. The episcopate has been empty since even before i moved to Nashville last February. I’d like to congratulate father Choby and give him the promise to keep him in my prayers. Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Reverend David R. Choby as the eleventh Bishop of Nashville. Rev. Choby will be ordained [...]
MISA DE GALLO or the nine-day Simbang Gabi (dawn Mass) is an occasion for Filipinos to strengthen their spirituality and bond as family and to enjoy the scents, sights, sounds and taste of Christmas. In northern and Central Luzon, various traditions, including a nine-day novena, accompany the celebration of the Simbang Gabi. I’ve heard a [...]
Do you need more technology to help with NFP? I know some of you know what “NFP” means. It’s a Catholic thing I know. I could go into a lengthy explanation of why artificial contraception is wrong, but that’s for another post. This post is to introduce a new gadget that could help with NFP. [...]
Today we celebrate the feast day of the Immaculate Conception. This does not celebrate the conception of our Lord as some people mistakenly think it does. It celebrates the conception of His mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. What is mean by Immaculate is that her conception was made pure by God so that she was [...]
I just read an excellent editorial on the recent homosexuality and the priesthood thing that everyone is yelling about even though they never read the document. IN RESPONSE to the Vatican’s ban on allowing practicing homosexual males to become priests: It is easy to label Vatican agents as liberal or conservative. However, religious leaders are [...]
Papa Ben’s message here really touched me. It’s good to be in Advent again. Please read it and join me as I wait in joyful hope. VATICAN CITY, NOV. 27, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Presiding over vespers of the First Sunday of Advent, Benedict XVI began the new liturgical year with an appeal to holiness. In a [...]
I found a website that has the “Latin Vulgate”. But, it looks like someone removed some of the books… They forgot to leave this out though… et si quis deminuerit de verbis libri prophetiae huius auferet Deus partem eius de ligno vitae et de civitate sancta et de his quae scripta sunt in libro isto [...]
Warning….This includes MSM writings about Catholic Church doctrine and Catholic Episcopal statements, which means you can’t trust everything written in the linked article. “WASHINGTON — The US Conference of Catholic Bishops yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new statement of opposition to capital punishment, asserting that it contributes to a culture of death and violence in the [...]
“MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Rev. Adrian Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and leader of a conservative takeover of the denomination, the nation’s second largest, died early Tuesday in Memphis. He was 74.” While I would differ with him a great deal theologically, Rev. Rogers is man I have a great deal [...]
Catholic Bishops are meeting in DC this week. Please keep them in your prayers.
BAKERSFIELD, California – A bandit out of Mexican folklore has become a patron saint to many drug dealers in this California city, and some even have altars to the Robin Hood-like character in their homes, authorities say. Jesus Malverde is known as the “narco saint” by many law enforcement officers and drug dealers. This doesn’t [...]
ROME (Reuters) – One of Italy’s most popular magazines, the wholesome Famiglia Cristiana weekly, will apologize to its readers for printing an advertisement which showed a woman’s naked bottom, the magazine said Tuesday. The advert caused a storm as it was the first time the Catholic magazine, whose title means “Christian Family,” had shown nudity, [...]
Rhymes with Right is right, we need to pray for our persecute brothers and sisters around the world who live somewhere where being a Christian is not safe. As you know, Christians around the world are facing serious persecution on a daily basis. Those of us in America are comparatively well-off, given the nature of [...]
There’s two new blogs in my blogroll. Both of them are form priests, one I know and one I don’t. The first is Fr. Bryan Timby who writes at Of Things Divine and Orange. Fr. Timby is the pastor of Holy Rosary, my old parish back in Memphis. I’m really happy to see him doing [...]
Here are some prayers that are really needed in this day and age… Act of Abandonment by CHARLES DE FOUCAULD Father, I abandon myself into your hands; Do with me whatever you will.Whatever you may do, I thank you;I am ready for all, I accept all. Let only your will be done in me, And [...]
There’s some pretty cool news from the Holy Land…. JERUSALEM – Israeli archaeologists on Saturday said they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to [...]
You always have to question the motives of a TV network, even one of the lesser ones like A&E on something like this. A&E has had plenty of anti-Christian and more specifically anti-Catholic programing in the past, especially since the publishing of that Da Vinci book. But this sounds like they are trying to be [...]
I want to wish everyone a happy All Saints Day. Don’t forget to go to Mass. Cool Links: Today’s Devotion: Saints Because Of Jesus Happy Catholic: The Feast of All Saints JIMMY AKIN.ORG: Happy All Saints Day
I just found out about this over at Jimmy Akin’s place. The mother of a Loretto High School student obtained photographs that exposed a drama teacher as a former Planned Parenthood volunteer, a revelation that led to the teacher’s firing last week. It wasn’t the first time Wynette Sills raised her anti-abortion views on the [...]