Pilgrim, Ora et Labora; the Fountain of Youth?

February 24, 2011 By

Look at this 103 year-old Catholic Sister, Sr. Cecilia Adorni, as she dances a remarkably spry polka amid the senior citizens whom she still serves. Watch her dance — I know 60 year-olds who can’t move like that — and notice her skin, which is gorgeous and youthful! We concern ourselves with holding on to [...]

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WYD, Madrid 2011 Awesome Sauce!

February 8, 2011 By

HOLY SMOKES! Via Deacon Greg Chills! Chills to hear that baritone voice again, and to see these youthful crowds. Chills to realize that Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have drawn millions of young people to them with the message they so need to hear: You are good. You are loved. You are created [...]

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The Yin and Yang of Catholic Young

February 4, 2011 By

It is fascinating to ponder the Taoist idea of Yin and Yang – the notion of an eternal cycle that grows to a fullness that must then transition to something else. I wrote about it once, in a manner of speaking, when thinking about the bliss of the Divine Office: A beautiful depiction of the [...]

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"If you can keep your head…" UPDATED

February 2, 2011 By

There is a poem by Rudyard Kipling – I’m sure we all know it: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not [...]

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The Idea of Praying Through Time

January 29, 2011 By

Pondering prayer, and the notion of praying through time, thanks to our Holy Father: We can love ourselves only if we have first been loved by someone else. The life a mother gives to her child is not just physical life; she gives total life when she takes the child’s tears and turns them into [...]

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". . .the heart of a Catholic Yogi"

January 11, 2011 By

In 1989 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith delivered a Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation. In Section V of that document, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) wrote: “Just as ‘the Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy in [the [...]

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Wee Three Kings

January 4, 2011 By

A really great photo via Catholic Vote:

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