Did You Know? The real substance of Christmas is rooted in the liturgical observances of the Church’s year of prayer and worship, in which the mysteries of salvation are displayed and remembered among the faithful. Liturgically, the date of Christmas is calculated nine months from the Solemnity of the Annunciation on March 25, which commemorates the incarnation of Christ in the womb of his mother. It is because of this ancient feast, one even more ancient than the liturgical and... Read more
Christians who want to keep Christ in Christmas, Christians who put up Navity Sets, Christians who go Christmas Caroling singing Joy to the World and God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen along with the rest of society come Christmas time, also watch It’s a Wonderful Life, some version of A Christmas Carol, Smile and Cry as the Grinch’s heart increases in size get ready to spy and see if reindeer know how to fly, and sing about that reindeer with the... Read more
A summary of Cath0lic Belief From The Public Domain Work The Belief of Catholics by Fr. Ronald Knox Chapter XIV. The Truths Catholics Hold In this essay I shall attempt no more than to give some outline of the main truths which Catholics believe as revealed truths. We could not have found them out for ourselves, by the unaided exercise of human reason; we believe them on the authority of Christ revealing; that is, because the Church to which he... Read more
I wanted to take this time of the year when most Christians celebrate the waiting period for the celebration of the birth of God into human history called advent, to personally share my deep theological convictions about my core beliefs about what I believe by stating why I’m not of a particular other belief system. If you venture on to read my thoughts you will learn why I’m not an atheist, a protestant, or a sedevacantist but a post-conciliar Catholic... Read more
Advent invites us to enter into the Mystery of God. Today is the feast day of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A very wonderful and fantastic mystery to contemplate during the preparation for the arrival of the Word made flesh. If you are Catholic, this is one of the core beliefs of our religion. If you believe in the Immaculate Conception, you presumably automatically believe in several other things taught by the Catholic church. If you believe... Read more
In this article I continue to casually look at some of the many events that didn’t happen all that long ago from the place in history we are all standing at currently. Of course, as this article ages, the time difference will continue to grow. I have mentioned some other events in some other articles that occurred during the 20th century that I won’t mention here. I mention these particular events described below to just give a simple perspective of... Read more
This is a list of some of the many works that are in the public domain. Meaning that you can download them for free on many websites like Project Guttenberg or Internet Archive. It also means that YOU-yes you, as a writer can pull characters and plot lines from these older works and use them in your own new creative works. Make something that was purely dramatic and turn it into Sci Fi or Fantasy or Horror.It also means you... Read more
A year ago, we started a new liturgical year that included the start of the jubilee year in the Catholic church it was also a high-octane political year in which the 45th president of the United States Donald Trump ran once again and someone took a shot at. The Olympics also happen, and future president of the United States Jimmy Carter was born and was still alive a 100 years later. A jubilee year, a predental election, and the Olympics... Read more
On thanksgiving we remember that there are oodles of things to be grateful and thankful for in life. Little Things. Big Things. Organized Important Things. Random Everyday common Things. Practical Things. Unusual Things. Exciting Things. Boring Things. Fun Things Such as… 1. Words that are fun to say. “Oodles of noodles help blue poodles mit der strudel.” — Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic Naughtiness) Words are what I use in my everyday speech and in my blog posts,... Read more
As I continue to highlight history, I now delve into the decade that gave us the greatest most terrible war in the history of mankind. Also it gave us one of the most famous disasters of the 20th century that would inspire one of the biggest movie blockbusters of all time. Exploration was happening at the bottom of the world. Tarzan first swung into literature. It is also when cinema started to turn out the big stars of the new... Read more
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