Monique Ocampo Writes
Read today’s reflection here! Today’s featured song from the Spotify playlist is “How Many Kings” from Downhere. Read more
Read today’s reflection here! Today’s featured song from the Spotify playlist is “How Many Kings” from Downhere. Read more
Read today’s reflection here. Please follow the Spotify playlist. Today’s featured song is Chris Tomlin’s “It is You.” I know it’s a Protestant song, but I feel like it speaks about the Eucharist even if the artist didn’t mean to. Read more
I’ve talked about The Serenity Prayer on this blog before (as well as the film Serenity). I even liked reading The Way of Serenity by Fr. Jonathan Morris. I feel particularly drawn to the Serenity Prayer lately because I’m having problems adjusting to change again. Or rather, the aftermath of the changes that came into my life. I’ve embraced the idea of trying new things, but sometimes, the new things are only there for a little while. It’s kind of like going... Read more
Day 5 of my Bible Study came out Saturday. Go read it here! The song from the Spotify playlist that fits this particular passage is Remembrance by Matt Maher. Go read Day 6 here. For Day 6’s passage, I chose to share Audrey Assad’s “Receive” from her EP “Death Be Not Proud.” Read more
Most people recognize St. Maximilian Kolbe as the priest who offered his life in the Auschwitz death camp to save a man who had a family. However, Maximilian Kolbe also left behind a legacy in Japan that would later make a huge difference during the end of WWII. During the 1930s, Maximilian Kolbe went on a mission trip to Nagasaki, Japan. Even though he didn’t know any Japanese, he was able to create a Japanese version of his magazine Knight of... Read more
Go read today’s meditation here! Today’s featured song from the Eucharist Spotify playlist is Chris Tomlin’s “Table,” which fits the parable that I shared in today’s reflection. Read more
When Elizabeth Scalia shared Encountering Jesus (the latest read from the Patheos Book Club) with me, I was definitely interested in reading it. The book (compiled by James Stuart Bell) is a collection of people seeing Jesus or witnessing a miracle in their lives that they attribute to Jesus’s intercession. I’ll admit that I like this book, but I don’t love it. I completely understand the idea of encountering Jesus through prayer or through a miracle that they can’t explain, but the... Read more
If you ever wanted a little history lesson on the feast of Corpus Christi, check out today’s reflection here. Today’s featured song from the Spotify playlist is an instrumental version of “We Come to Your Feast” as done by the Daughters of St. Paul. Read more
Whenever I scroll through my dashboard on Tumblr, one thing that keeps popping up is this thing called “Nice Guy Syndrome.” “Nice Guy Syndrome” is (according to the Tumblr hive mind) when your average guy complains about his lack of relationships even though he acts nice to women. Most guys with “nice guy syndrome” complain about being stuck in the friendzone. A good example of “Nice Guy Syndrome” or being stuck in the friendzone can be seen in “Prophecy... Read more
Today’s featured song from the Spotify playlist is Twila Paris’s “How Beautiful.” It was a song my friends and I sang as a Communion Hymn for Cafe Catholica. I think it fits what I wrote for today. Go read today’s reflection here! Read more
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