The Feast of Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ, is a supremely important one throughout Latin America, and in parts of Europe and Africa as well. I wrote an essay about its significance some years ago. The feast strikes me as particularly significant today, owing to the steadily tightening food shortages here: …
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May 13 2022
Since No One Else Is Doing So…
…it falls to me to commemorate the 105th Anniversary of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima: Our Lady of Fátima is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary based on the famed Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria, in Fátima, Portugal. …
May 07 2022
One More Before I Stir My Stumps
In Weird Dave’s Friday Night ONT, he cites this tweet: Is further comment really necessary? Verbum sat sapienti.
Jan 28 2022
Humility And Confidence
Do those two qualities sound mutually exclusive to you? They’re not, though quite a lot of people think they are. In fact, they complement one another to an extent that only experience can adequately illuminate. No, no political blather today. This is more important. *** I’d bet that most of my Gentle …
Jan 20 2022
Conversations
Ours is a “mixed” household: One (1) Catholic husband (me); One (1) agnostic-Jewish wife (Beth, a.k.a. the C. S. O.); Three dogs (Sophie, Precious, and Joy); Four cats (Uriel, Fluffy, Chloe, and Zoe). (The cats sacrifice to Bastet. I have no idea whom the dogs worship. Possibly Dick Van Patten.) The consequences …
Nov 21 2021
For The Feast Of Christ The King
[Today is the Feast of Christ The King, which falls on the last Sunday before Advent. It’s a unique holy day for several reasons, and one that I find particularly personally significant. The essay below first appeared at Eternity Road on January 6, 2008. I find that I cannot improve upon it, for which …
Oct 22 2021
A Great Man
There are people who don’t believe in great men. That is, they don’t believe that a man can be “great” in any sense that would command the attention and respect of others. Such a person, upon hearing a man called “great,” immediately takes exception. He tends to regard it as a personal insult. …
Jun 16 2021
A Harbinger No One Should Miss
In truth, it’s hard to believe that anyone who pays even modest attention to the news could miss it: The highest honor a lay Catholic could possibly hope for is to go to Mass with the head of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. Mind you, in truth Joe Biden is about …
Apr 12 2021
A Couple Of Catholic Conundrums
An old tickler from many years ago is about the day a gaggle of theologians were confronted by a layman with a simple question: “Did Adam and Eve have navels?” The initial consensus answer was no. But, the layman objected, that doesn’t square with the notion that the first man and woman were the …
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