This actually went up yesterday for Trinity Sunday, but there was already a lot being posted yesterday: Intentionally or not, this charmingly surreal fable illustrates an important truth: when dealing with a higher nature than oneself, one will necessarily encounter seeming contradictions and mysteries. It would indeed be a strong grounds for suspicion if one … Continue reading C365: The Trinity and Flatland
Faith
Friday Flotsam: Abbreviated Vacation Version
1. I'm in Maine right now visiting the kids, and I mean that in both sense of the word. I'm both visiting my niece and nephew, and one of my sister's goats just recently gave birth, resulting in frolicky, happy twins who are indescribably cute. 2. Most people like animals, which is to say they … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Abbreviated Vacation Version
Catholic365 – Masculine Spirituality
Another C365 article went up today, this one some thoughts on Male Spirituality I had after a retreat last December: In particular, it highlighted something for me. In my experience, it is difficult for modern men to really love Our Lord, or to feel towards Him that intense devotion and attraction that we are told … Continue reading Catholic365 – Masculine Spirituality
C365: The Rogation Days
Another C365 article, this one touching on the Rogation Days: In any case, even apart from the ever-present potential for disaster, there is the ever-present question of food. Though modern fertilizers, chemicals, and industrial farming produces an enormous surplus (whatever else may be said of it), yet it remains farming. The food we eat comes … Continue reading C365: The Rogation Days
Friday Flotsam: Post Lent Crash, John Wick, and More
1. This week has been largely consumed by the post-Lent crash; where you've spent weeks holding off from various temptations, denying yourself certain pleasures, then have a few days of intense emotional energy and effort in reaching the pinnacle of the liturgical year...and all at once, you're done, and you can do all the things … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Post Lent Crash, John Wick, and More
Catholic365: Honesty of God
Good news everyone: I have a new outlet. I'm writing for Catholic365 now, and my first article just went up (they're on a different set up, so I have more control over when my articles go up there). It's a topic I think I've covered before; the honesty of God and its consequences: It is … Continue reading Catholic365: Honesty of God
Christ is Risen
The first day of the new creation is dawned, when Our Lord passes through death into new and everlasting Life.
Friday Flotsam: Done With the Job, Men’s Conference, and Louis L’Amour
1. Today was my last day at the Job. Mostly a matter of putting things in order. It's such a relief to be done at last. 2. What happens next is, of course, the big follow-up question, but I have time to worry about that. There are a few avenues I might pursue, but mostly … Continue reading Friday Flotsam: Done With the Job, Men’s Conference, and Louis L’Amour
Feast of St. Joseph: Church and State
The other day I described the Protestant mentality as a kind of separation of Church and State within the individual. That, of course, itself depends on the idea that there is something like Church and State in the individual, which I seems to me almost self-evident. There is in man that which seeks the ultimate … Continue reading Feast of St. Joseph: Church and State
St. Alphonso on Confession
From the Sermons of St. Alphonso de Liguori for this day: A disciple of Socrates, at the moment he was leaving a house of bad fame, saw his master pass: to avoid being seen by him, he went back into the house. Socrates came to the door and said: "My son, it is a shameful … Continue reading St. Alphonso on Confession
Serpent's Den 