Thursday, 2 August 2012

Priest and Church Week

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When I started blogging this week, I did not realize that so many posts would have to do with priests and the nature of the Church. These th...

Re-visiting John 6:1-15

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I am still looking at John 6:1-15, the Feeding of the Five Thousand. What has struck me today is the difference between Philip and Andre...

More On Holiness and the Mystical Body of Christ from Pope Pius XII

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If you continue to read this post, a follow-up on the one before, you can gently tell the priest who preaches on the invisible Church tha...

On the Church and the Mystical Body of Christ-There is No Invisible Church

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Some commentators are still sending things anonymously. There are notes all over this blog on that policy. However, I want to address one ...

From a good ole home town paper-this is real America, not what you see in Washington

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Last Updated: Aug. 01, 2012, 8:29 pm From the Dispatch-Argus of Illinois By Jonathan Turner,  jturner@qconline.com MOLINE -- Carl ...

More on the Feeding of the Five Thousand

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I am very fortunate to have found a Confessor who understands the power of meditation of the Scriptures over many days. St. Ignatius of Lo...

A Look at the Document from the Congregation for Catholic Education on Priestly Vocations: One

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The document is not that long, but I shall highlight some sections on this blog over the next few days.  The document entitled, Pastoral G...

On the Maccabees and Hierarchies of Vocations: some to pray, some to minister, some to fight and some to do all three

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Some Catholics have been taught erroneously that there is no longer a hierarchy of vocations. In the Midwestern part of the States, this was...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Many posts today

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...and do not forget to use the search button for themes listed as tags.

On the Congregation for Catholic Education

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This part of the Curia should be very busy these days. I think if I just kept up with all the Vatican documents and read all of St. Thom...

Great Britain, Mission Country

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One in twelve people in Great Britain are Catholic , which means about five million people. Only one million attend Mass regularly. Great Br...

Hampshire and Berkshire in Bloom

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England in the countryside is truly beautiful. Traveling though Berkshire and Hampshire, one sees the roses blooming, baskets of annua...

If you don't read Newsmax.com, you should

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http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/huckabee-chick-fil-a-appreciation-christians/2012/07/31/id/447117

A Reminder of a Great Prayer

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God has crated me to do Him some definite service. He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mis...

Relativism and Naivete

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Relativism causes naivete. I have realized that those young people and maybe not so young who make assumptions about the past or the pres...

Again, on private revelations.

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I cannot repeat enough that private revelations do not have to be believed by Catholics. That some people become angry when their favorite a...
Tuesday, 31 July 2012

Romney looks more like a leader

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http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120729/DA0AQGP80.html

On the sexualization of our children

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A dear friend of mine from California and I had a long discussion on the sexualization of children. The entire society of the West has turne...

On the Stages of Perfection and a Warning.

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Before I continue with the definitions of virtues and sins, it is very important that I re-iterate both the warnings of St. John of the Cros...

Meditating on the Feeding of the Five Thousand

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I am thinking today of the reading from Sunday on the Loaves and the Fishes. Apparently, there are still priests who insist it was just peop...