Monday April 1, 2024 Monday within the Octave of Easter Saint Nuno of Saint Mary, religious April Fools Day Day 91: Gideon’s Story — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube Day 91: Christ Rose from the Dead — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube Here’s What Happen Last Week and Year in Life. 1700-English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other. 1789 – In New... Read more
As Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ, history continued to happen while the priest was raising the host at mass and the Baptist minister was preaching his sermon and the Lutheran choir were singing their hymns. NOTE: Most of the historical descriptions described are taken verbatim from Dr. Jimmy and Larry Wikipedia. I start my look at history on the mystery of Easter on… (Easter Sunday) April 8, 1708 The first performance of George Frideric Handel‘s oratorio La resurrezione takes place in Rome. Great... Read more
Pray the Stations of the Cross with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati 5.63K subscribers The following is the transcript of The AOC Stations taken from Youtube. This particular version of the Stations in my opinion combines the love of God and neighbor more harmoniously and beautifully then any version of this devotion I have ever come across. It is not only a reelection on the passion of Christ but a guide into asking God to make us into living disciples that... Read more
LISTEN The void-the door you’ve locked Can’t you hear God’s whisper? His gentle tap upon your heart KNOCK-KNOCK-KNOCK In the silence of the night LISTEN-LISTEN-LISTEN Can’t you feel he void of discontent and restlessness When your ears are crowded but your heart is swaying EMPTY-EMPTY-EMPTY SILENCE SILENCE SILENCE KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN TRUE LOVE He suffered for me He felt pain for me He wept for me He was mocked for me He was whipped for me He... Read more
Pope Francis@Pontifex (Apr 1, 2023) Living #HolyWeek means entering ever more deeply into God’s logic, into the logic of the Cross, which is not primarily that of suffering and death, but rather that of love and of the gift of self that brings life. Photo by Long Thiên Pope Francis@Pontifex (Apr 5, 2023) During these holy days, let’s draw near the Crucified One. Let’s place ourselves before him, stripped, to take an honest look at ourselves, removing whatever is superfluous. Let’s look at... Read more
I try to write 2 posts a week which can be sometimes challenging. Especially when it is after midnight and I’m feeling the wrestling match of wanting to go to bed and also wanting to get my writing urges out of my system. Blog posts can always be shorter or longer, more detailed or less, more exciting or just more matter of fact. Hopefully humorous and engaging. Having engaged readers is one of the main goals of any writer. Like... Read more
I was lying in bed trying to come up with an original post to publish on St. Patrick’s day or International All Things Irish Day. I was tired from a day washing dishes and cutting up melons and my tiredness was wrestling with my insomnia. It’s obligatory don’t you know for a Catholic blogger with a Irish Catholic wife to come up with something new every year on St. Paddy’s day. I was sinking in the gloom of a blank... Read more
In my reflections on Cabrini Cabrini Was Awesome | A Catholic Movie Review Of Angel Studios Cabrini Movie. (patheos.com) I referenced several other people’s thoughts on the film. Here are some more thoughts. Leah Fisher And THIS is how I would have started the movie! SURRENDER TO JESUS (written by St. Frances Cabrini): “My loving Jesus, I enclose myself in You and surrender myself completely in Your loving Heart. Enlighten my mind with a ray of Your light, move my... Read more
On March 8, 2024, which is International Women’s Day, film fans clearly had a choice of few new movies they could go out to cinemas to see. They could return to Arrakis to see giant sand worms swimming through the planets desert dunes amongst galactic political sci-fi action in Dune 2. Tolkien’s dislike for Dune interests me partly because, while I’m fascinated by Villeneuve’s adaptations, reviewing them has proven a challenge, since I must try to articulate my appreciation of movies the... Read more
The 1st Academy Awards The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and hosted by AMPAS president Douglas Fairbanks, honored the best films from August 1, 1927 to July 31, 1928 and took place on May 16, 1929, at a private dinner held at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Tickets cost $5 ($85 in 2022, considering inflation); 270 people attended the event, which lasted 15 minutes. It is the only Academy Awards ceremony not broadcast on either radio or television; a radio broadcast was... Read more
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