… an old friend once revealed to me how he chooses a church to visit when he travels. He goes to the website and immediately looks for the information about the priest. Is the pastor wearing jeans and a popped collar polo or a plain old business suit as opposed to collared clericals or a religious habit? Does he go by Father Bob or even drops his title all together? These may seem like insignificant details but they can reveal... Read more

… The Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth. For more information about their order to discern your calling please visit their site. Read more

… girl with red hat. A print of this hangs in my home sharing wall space with Matisse. Read more

… the only thing that could possible make this more fantastic would be if flames of awesome were spewing from the tailpipe. Read more

… there are twenty four hours in day. Eight of those are spent sleeping, if I’m lucky. Another eight is spent at a soul sucking office job. Add to that a two hour commute round-trip, two hours to get myself and The Boy dressed and ready for work/school and one hour in the evening for preparing/cooking and eating dinner … mathematically speaking, I should have three hours left over a day. Three! Yet I still can’t find time for regular... Read more

… you have twenty minutes, thirty minutes tops, to create a healthy dinner for your family every evening without having to resort to PB & J and cereal for dinner, the sad extent of my culinary talents. What do you do? What do you on the run between the kid’s extra-circular activities? Keep in mind that I leave directly from work to take my son to his after school functions so I am not near a stove. I would have... Read more

… by 3 Leg Torso. I have recently acquired in my possession one accordion to accompany my violin lessons. My son has repeatedly threatened to run away from home. My cat has already expressed his discontent with this disruption of his peace by using the case as a scratching post. Philistines. Read more

… what is it? Is it just a nice Catholic way to say someone is verbally obnoxious? I am curious since this phrase was recently attributed to me from an estranged source. Read more

… the Digital Hairshirt presents me with another opportunity to find Mr. Crescat. Isn’t she thoughtful? “TheUglyBugBall.com caters to the “aesthetically challenged” with a pitch line of “ugly people are a better calibre of human – pretty people generally aren’t very nice and tend to be a bit shallow. That and, ugly people have lower expectations. For a first date a Family Bucket will usually do the trick.” [source] Sixth time is the charm right? Read more

… poof! Insta-priest. How to Grow a Priest explores the influencing factors of becoming a priest. Pat Gohn writes from Pope Benedict’s letter to seminarians, encouraging them to learn and live in a constant state of prayer. Gohn continues, illustrating my next point; “Here’s something I learned a little too late in life: Faithful priests come from, well, the faithful. The call to the ministerial priesthood grows out of the common priesthood that all the baptized share, since the People... Read more