Quick! Those of you on the Julian Calendar (happy feast, by the way) — especially priests needing a pronto sermon idea … Go H E R E ! Whoever you are, click the above hyperlink and read about the Transfiguration of our Lord on Mount Tabor from a wonderfully different perspective. Kudos, Jan!As they say, in the South … That’ll preach! Image Source Read more
Back in August of 1977, following the rigors of after-school football practice, I was leaving the practice field with my buddies when I noticed my Mom and Dad sitting in our 1966 Ford pickup truck … my Mom was crying, my Dad looked sad. I knew something — some tragedy — had happened … As my mind raced to think of what friend or relative it might involve, my Mom stopped the sobs long enough to look my way through... Read more
It has gotten so hot and dry, the Baptists have gone to sprinkling, the Lutherans have started using baby wipes, the Presbyterians are passing out rain checks, and the Catholics have started praying that the wine will be turned back into water. — A note from my Carolina hometown pal, Roxanne. Believe me Dry and Houston are currently antonyms!Image Source Oh! And for those of you wondering what Clergy do all week? Go HERE. Thanks to Jean-Michel. Read more
By now you’ve no doubt heard about the Bishop who is advocating Christians calling God “Allah.” (Uh oh — wonder what Christians in the Middle East will think?) I’ve read some readers’ comments on the news story and, well, I don’t recommend it. Hence, the pic to the left. Don’t worry, I’m gonta ‘splain it all. Read on … Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a... Read more
O most holy Mother of God, O only Lady who art utterly pure in both soul and body, look upon me, abominable and unclean, who have blackened soul and body with the stains of my passionate and gluttonous life. Cleanse my passionate mind; set aright my blind and wandering thoughts and make them incorrupt; bring my senses to order and guide them; free me from my evil and repulsive addiction to unclean prejudices and passions which torment me; grant my... Read more
The bane of our age is not intolerance, but a fuzzy-minded, wishy-washy “tolerance” based on a muddled conviction that there’s “something good about everyone” and that everyone is “like us” down deep. There isn’t, and they aren’t. Stolen from a Comment on the weekend’s frivolity. Image Source Read more
“A time is coming when people will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, “You are mad, you are not like us.” — St. Anthony the GreatRecently, in the United States … Presidential hopefuls in the Democrat Party participated in a forum devoted entirely to “Gay Issues.” Meanwhile, in the Empire-Formerly-Known-as-Evil … A spokesman for the Orthodox Church said Wednesday that Russia’s schools should teach religious principles and moral values, and... Read more
The following is by Fr Aris Metrakos.Why do some men who are called to this role fail miserably while others succeed? Can seminarians be prepared for the presbytery in a way that is neither hyper-spiritualized (“just send them all to a monastery for a few years”) nor McDonaldized (“we need to produce a consistent and dependable product to serve our parishes”)? Can older priests learn to mentor young clergy without becoming their tormentors? What criteria do veteran priests use to... Read more
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