“‘Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal and follow other gods you have not known, and then come and stand before me in this house, which bears my Name, and say, “We are safe”—safe to do all these detestable things? Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares theLord. Jeremiah 7: 9-11 Read more
Catholics don’t regard Christmas as one, big rousing day of overeating and gift giving. We see it as a joyful season of the Church. It lasts right up until we celebrate the visit the Wise Men paid to the baby Jesus. That kind of season thinking is hard for Americans, tied as we are to jobs and paychecks. We feel lucky if we can get off work long enough to celebrate that one big day. But a “Season?” No can... Read more
Merry Christmas my friends. Read more
Christmas and The Precious. Does it get any better? Read more
A reader at an on-line piano site that I’ve begun to frequent asked where to find sheet music for a composition called “Storm at Sea.” This composition is required playing for an annual exam given to piano students. Writing Public Catholic has sharpened my Google skills, so I went out on the internet and found links to the sheet music for this guy. Then, just out of curiosity, I went to YouTube and looked up various performances of it. What... Read more
The girls are heading out for last-minute Christmas shopping. The patio-destroying pup is on the left. Read more
The Skit Guys give us the skinny on Christmas. Read more
My son left his puppy in our back yard early one morning before anyone got up. He texted this message: Left the puppy. Pet her and stuff. The rest was rock n roll. Read more
This is longer than most videos I post. But it’s well worth the watch. Read more
It starts as soon as we can toddle out of our cribs. It rears its ugly head on playdates and in day care and mother’s day out. By the time we’ve gotten to first grade, “it” is full-blown and set in concrete. The “it” I’m referring to is the sad human practice of setting aside a member of our group for isolation which turns neatly into group attacks and shunning. Anytime there are more than two people in a group,... Read more
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