Holy week triptych, Ethiopia, 16th century.
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This is insightful. As a Catholic — a cradle Catholic, but an intellectual one — I spent a long time jumping, like Qoheleth, from one pursuit to another in order to find meaning, to “prove” myself, as it were. That included a lot of intellectual pursuits and attempts to master Catholic theology.
Like many who attended Steubenville — defi…
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My Jesus, mercy!
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I love this time of year!
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Thoughts on God’s mercy and the Prodigal Son:
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“The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural cure for suffering, but a supernatural use for it.'“
—Simone Weil
Blessed Holy Week to all—
"A saint is not someone who never sins, but one who sins less and less frequently and gets up more and more quickly."
—St. Bernard
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Fr. Reed was one of my instructors in seminary and a friend with whom I’ve occasionally had the pleasure of conversing in the two decades since. While recognizing that it is easy to be surprised these days by the private lives of others, I don’t think Fr. Reed the type to have done anything wrong as indicated and I pray for him and all i…
Father Joe and "the lawsuit"
The Cross is the way of Paradise, but only when it’s borne willingly.
—St. Paul of the Cross
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“Let us look at life as it truly is: an instant between two eternities.”
- St. Thérèse of Lisieux
“I have killed a holy man.”
Latest from my series on the Sorrowful Mysteries & The Saints.
St. Titus Brandsma & The Carrying of the Cross
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Angel in the Waters (amzn.to/3RUhG0c) is a modern* classic, and the best for talking about a new sibling growing. Parents are gonna cry though.
*anything post-dating my childhood is modern.
Reading Beautiful Books to/with Children (2-5 year olds edition)
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The author of The Heliand (the Saxon Gospel) imagines the resurrection.
Tomorrow, instead of the usual interview, I’ll be sharing a meditation on the suffering and death of Our Lord—featuring the profound insights of St. Thomas Aquinas. It’s Holy Week, and I hope this helps you draw closer to Christ.
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Ten years ago, deep in Obama’s second term and still flailing to get a prayer practice, I took a friend’s advice and set aside all the hard core meditation structure and just started sitting quietly.
And I set an alarm for two minutes.
I sat for two minutes for several days while I got used to nothing happening.
Then I started adding mi…
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Super busy week! Drove out to Dallas to pick up my son’s friends so they could all go on a seminary visit from our diocese.
We’re so close paying off the big family van, but we started thinking about tariffs driving up the cost of cars and having two vehicles over 100,000 miles probably isn’t smart with all these kids. So I spent all day Friday negotiating to afford a small SUV (with the money we’ll save shortly once the van note is paid) so we at least have something we can use fo…
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Decided to take Holy Week off from most serious writing. I'll scribble notes in my journal, but most of the time I'm going to read good books and think and pray and ask for God's guidance.
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I feel like this image perfectly encapsulates left wing environmentalism
My AI skepticism is muy grande, but I just tried activating it on my phone because you can just call out Bible verses and it will give you multiple translations.
Next up: “Hey Siri, show me where sola scriptura is in the Bible. Siri? Hello?”
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Published remarks from my time ’s excellent conference —
“I do not think enough of us appreciate just how frightening porn itself is to young women, or how frightening to women the men are who have been malformed by it. Or frankly, how frightening is the rhetoric of those extremely online right-wing male provocateurs who too often talk a…
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Little ways to resist how tech overtakes human interaction:
-eat in a restaurant or greet your delivery driver instead of having food dropped at door
-take groceries to a cashier instead of self checkout
-skip the self-service kiosks (fast food, ATM) and choose the human being
Anybody know if this new King of Kings movie is accurate to Catholic doctrine?
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Spencer Klavan absolutely nails it. The only way we can grow in morality is by experience. Experience gives wisdom. Wisdom allows us to see more clearly what God wants of us
“What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.”
(James 4:14)
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I have not had a headache this bad in years. Probably a combination of sinus mixed with migraine.
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Palm Sunday by Evans Yegon
This photo is being circulated with the claim that it was a Carthaginian votive “mocking child sacrifice victims.” There’s no evidence of that at all, and it was more likely meant to scare off evil spirits. History memes are usually bad history.
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I have known this to happen many times over the years.
“Jesus said loving in this way is a commandment – as serious a command as the command that we not commit adultery or steal or kill.”
My latest piece is a reflection on the Pedilavium of Holy Thursday.
The Foot Washing of Holy Thursday
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Let me just say that this legal strategy is deeply abhorrent to my Catholic faith.
Let future bishop aspire to be nothing more than a simple parish priest. Let him have accepted Holy Orders with a fear and trembling overcome only by faith in his vocation.
Let no man ever be ordained who desires priesthood as a means to higher stature. Firs…
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Substack is by far the most pleasant place to scroll, but I’ll be darned if I managed to kick my Twitter and Instagram habits only to replace them with this!
“And [Jesus] said to them, ‘Take care! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.’”
(Luke 12:15)
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If I were here on a green card, I could be arrested for posting this article. Or for anything at all. Or for nothing.
If I were Palestinian, I could be deported to the killing fields of Gaza for the crime of acknowledging that they exist. Or for the crime of being Palestinian.
“To love is to will the good of the other” St. Thomas Aquinas
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God has given this man an exceptional knack for poetry. Do yourself a favor and read Nate Gadiano’s latest masterpiece “In Thee Made One”. Deo Gratias! :)
In Thee Made One
As much as we try to keep Holy Week holy,
our efforts can only take us so far.
Since the week is all about growing closer to the Sacred Heart of Christ,
it is only through His heart that we can treat the week with the holiness that it deserves.
I love how St. Margaret Mary Alacoque teaches us to do that,
“The Divine Heart is an ocean full of …
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What side do you fall on?
The Incarnation happens because of man’s sin. God became man so that He would die on the cross to redeem mankind. In other words, God became man in response to man’s fall.
Or
The Incarnation was always in the Divine plan regardless of man’s sins because in the Incarnation, God fully reveals Himself to us? In other words, the Incarnation would have happened even if man had not fallen.
The first is the Thomistic position and the second is the Scotus position.
Thoughts?
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Tried something different with the fantasy short story I'm currently working on and wrote the ending first.
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With Holy Week approaching, I was thinking of sharing a short daily meditation from St. Thomas Aquinas. Nothing from me—just his wisdom—but I’d do my best to walk you through it and help you understand it. Would that interest you?
Agree to an extent. I had covid March 2021. Lost taste and smell. Not vaccinated. Smell and taste changed to horrid distortion September 2021. I have long covid. It is real and I would not wish this on my worst enemy.
My husband, son and I Had it Nov ‘21 (we were and will remain unjabbed). Came through ok (we used IVM, etc.) and X-rays confirmed it never got to our lungs. However, my husband and I lost taste and smell. Both returned, but we are still experiencing “Covid nose”, smelling garbage or smoke that isn’t there. I have also developed GI issues that started immediately after Covid that haven’t subsided. It’s not psychosomatic. It sucks. I don’t appreciate it being dismissed by people who have no exper…
I may have had minor GI issues as well. My doctor recommended life extension probiotic florassist gi with phage. Can’t say whether it helped but sure it couldn’t hurt.
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Have you tried grapefruit seed extract. Brings people back from the dead with diverticulitis, giardia, etc. And daily use keeps your gut totally happy.
Have not but will look into it. I was also considering IV-C and perhaps Ivermectin bi-weekly. In addition to the headaches/discomfort, I have some periodic ringing in my ears. ??? What fresh hell is this? :) with all due respect to the bad cat, this is not your momma’s cold..