Very good news! Not only is Abrego Garcia alive, Salvadoran authorities, reversing their initial refusal, allowed him to meet with Senator Van Hollen, who called Abrego Garcia’s wife to “pass along his message of love.” The police-state machine blinking in the harsh light of global scrutiny?
"Sometimes to find the light, we must first touch the darkness."
The main alter of my parish church, St. Mary's of Greenville, stripped on Holy Thursday night to commemorate the Passion of Christ.
“The one and only good is to love God with your whole heart and to be poor in spirit here below.”
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux
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New Catholics - Good Friday service has a collection each year which directly benefits the Church in the Holy Land, including medical care, education, upkeep of the holy sites, etc.
War has limited & stretched their resources.
Please prayerfully give if you go.
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Notes have become the playground of my writing. Sometimes an article gets started and then gets revised as I fine tune what I’m trying to say. The picture in this case is one that I took when I was at Christ The Good Shepherd in Saginaw, MI. One of many pictures I have in my collection.
The story of Good Friday is in one sense the most typical story of all: an authoritarian regime putting to death anyone who dares dissent, religious leaders more concerned with their own power than the truth, people eager to spit on anyone who calls out their hypocrisy.
Yet, it is also the strangest story of all: how an unjust act led to …
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It may seem irreverent to suggest, but I think it’s in part human. I wonder if Christ, while asking the apostles to prepare the feast for the last supper, might have taken to a rest (nap). Knowing he needed the energy and that he could rely on his Apostles to follow instructions, it would make sense.
Either way, not being the same thing, I think I’m going to follow suit with this idea before the 4 parishes I oversee celebrate Triduum. :)
The line in this interview that resonated with me the most:
“The heart demands redemption.”
Praise God it’s coming soon❤️
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I’m delighted to share this with you: an excerpt from one of the five pieces of my own writing I’m proudest of! The essay, written for Kenneth R. Morefield’s book on the Arts & Faith Top 100 Films, deals with The Song of Bernadette and Jessica Hausner’s 2009 Lourdes. This excerpt isn’t about film, but about the epistemology of miracles a…
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I got my first “fan” who was really just a pr0n account trolling for followers. Blocked and reported, as they say. That kind of garbage will bring the site down faster than anything else. Keep it out of Substack. And if you're engaging in this kind of behavior, you need to start praying that Jesus shows you a better way to use the gifts he gave you.
“He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death—even death on a cross.
Therefore God also highly exalted him and gave him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
(Philippians 2:8-11)
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“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament...There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth..."—J.R.R. Tolkien to his son Michael, March 1941
With the faith of Christ in my heart. Here are the intentions that are troubling me. Please keep these matters in prayer.
For my mom, Mary, and her on going health issues. Wisdom of the doctors and over all healing.
That Dar (Kat’s mom) can get her van fixed quickly and that the price is fair.
I’m still dealing with some anxiety that is d…
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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NASB95)
A blessed Maundy Thursday to all!
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This month I’ll be a priest for 13 years, and celebrating the Lords Supper today, where the ministerial priesthood was instituted, has given me some thoughts.
Sin is a rejection of intimacy/communion with Christ. Judas had already arranged Christ’s betrayal, and his mind was so warped that he could not intuit the generosity of the Lords gift at this Table. Other things took up his mind in such a way - such as money and politics - that he couldn’t ground his mind in the morally sane principle of …
Around here there is a tradition of walking up a certain hill on Good Friday. Nowadays many people walk to the 19th century tower built to commemorate Robert Peel, the man who invented the modern police force, but lots still walk over to the site of a medieval cross on the Moor. This was a pilgrims’ cross, but my suspicion is (there is p…
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“These three events in our Lord’s life—the Last Supper, the crucifixion and the resurrection—form a single redemptive act, which we call the Paschal Mystery. In the same way, ‘Though chronologically three days,’ the three days of the Paschal Triduum ‘are liturgically one day unfolding for us the unity of Christ’s Paschal Mystery.’ Likewi…
Michael and Satan Fight for the Body of Moses
Commentaries on the Letter of Jude are more interesting than you might expect. There’s a lot going on in these 459 words. F’rinstance, Jude 9 is a real rabbit hole: ”But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounc…
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Ya'el of Bethany is one of my favorite characters in 's “Immortal Champions” universe.
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Heading to the parish early to go to confession before Holy Thursday Mass. Pray that the Holy Spirit would illumine my heart to know my sins so I may confess well. Let us prepare to keep the New Passover with Jesus, the Lamb of God, as we enter into the Sacred Triduum—the holiest time of the year. By God’s grace, may our reliving the events of the Paschal Mystery change us for the better.
"Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." Luke 23:42
This is a phrase that has been in my mind all week heading into Easter. Something that I’ve been reflecting on in my own journey in this Catholic faith.
This moment that is recorded deals with the two thieves that are on the Cross with Christ at the crucifixion. One who mocks Christ for being there. The other with a more repentant heart. As he pleads for his soul.
How many times can we see ourselves in both thieves on the Cross? I …
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Men, what’s stopping you from dressing like this?
(Source: Lily Pulitzer)
Blessed Holy Thursday to each of you!
Our littles still have trouble making it through the Holy Thursday liturgy, so we turn our living room into a garden to keep vigil with the Lord at home.
We put sleeping bags out for the kids so they can just fall asleep there while we pray. They look forward to it every year (as do I).
Have a blessed and prayerful Triduum, see you at Easter!
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According to some folks on social media, educated people don't believe in 'fairy tales'
The data says: Someone with a masters degree is just as likely to believe there is life after death as someone who didn't finish high school.
ReLiGiOn iS tHe oPiAtE oF tHe mAsSeS, amirite?
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Morning, all!! Morning, Dr. R!! Now this Letter is worth losing sleep over! Add to it, this buffer: "The Right to Vote Act, introduced in the House by Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-N.Y.) and in the upper chamber by Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), would for the first time establish a statutory right to vote in federal elections, shielding Americans from laws making it harder to cast ballots. "Amid ongoing nationwide Republican voter suppression efforts, a trio of congressional …
It's to early for hard liquor, but, but!!
It's after 5 somewhere.
