Speaking just for myself — because in recent years I always seem to host the family feast of Easter Sunday, Easter Monday is a respite, almost a day of retreat and recovery; regaining energy expended over the past 4 days. I will be spending most of my day before my oratory, I think. I hope your Easter was wonderful. From an Easter homily by Melito of Sardis, bishop We should understand, beloved, that the paschal mystery is at once old... Read more
He is risen! Truly, He is Risen! Read more
Regular readers, especially those who “go back aways” may remember Sarah, an old friend to this site. She is a Lutheran (she calls herself a “fundamentalist”) and a very ladylike Southern Belle who always addresses me as “Miss A” which I think is adorable. Her life has not been easy; few lives are, but she has truly suffered and yet emerged from it with a heart capable of great love. Sarah is exceedingly well-read, and not afraid to dazzle me... Read more
This ugly, deplorable, heartbreaking picture showed up in my facebook feed. That’s a beautiful baby, who looks to be full-term. And there are thousands if not millions of people who cannot have babies, and who would quickly claim this little one for their own. In a world where the fullness of love is constantly being challenged by hate and emptiness, the love therein created — parent-to-child-to-grandparents and so on — would have brought a little more affirmation, a little more... Read more
Chuck Colson is in grave condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage Evangelical leader and frequent life and family spokesman Chuck Colson is in critical condition in hospital after undergoing surgery this weekend. He was hospitalized Friday after enduring a brain hemorrhage while speaking in Virginia at the Wilberforce Conference. Colson underwent surgery on Saturday morning to remove a pool of clotted blood on the surface of his brain. Colson became ill while speaking at the Wilberforce Weekend conference on Friday... Read more
Had a doctor’s appointment this afternoon and the intake nurse was surprised to learn I am 53. “You don’t look it,” she said. Well, that’s nice, and flattering, of course, but I don’t take it too seriously: I’m fat, and so my face wrinkles are filled out. As I go up and down the scale, the furrows deepen and widen. If the hips go down, the face makes a frown, and vice-versa. Currently, my face looks more cheerful than I’d... Read more
Seems to me he’s having a hard time hiding his anger. And the angrier he gets, the more he struggles. Any creature trapped in a net knows that flailing about only further ensnares. No-Drama Obama needs to chill; if he can’t relax, he’s toast. He’s just reading. It’s just words. He’s not feeling any of it. Meanwhile, I can hear Michael McDonald singing “takin’ it to the street!” When you’re not equipped to deal with realities, and reason has fled,... Read more
UPDATE: Also, I don’t know where I got this, but it’s kind of stunning to listen to almost 20 years later. The press’ obsession with abortion — and the possibility that this mean old church might somehow take it away from them — has been breathtakingly consistent, over-dramatic, and pathetic. “It could deprive them of a freedom of choice the communists never tried to take away from them.” And obviously a legion of female news reports learned their voice-over technique... Read more
My latest column at The Catholic Answer is showing up about now, and as we’re in Holy Week, it’s a timely reminder that confession is good for the soul: The memory still stings: there I was, age 7, the veteran of a splendidly moving and memorable first holy Communion and graced with an oddball love of the Sacrament of Confession in all of its velvet-curtained-sliding-screen ambiance, planning to steal a toy “ladies fan” from a candy store, simply to see... Read more
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