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Communion Rails

I read often lately about how many parishes are restoring their communion rails. This is a very good thing (especially since it was...

A Healthy Distrust

I have always had a healthy distrust in those who are immersed in scientific euphoria. Then, after the Covid farce that was thrown on us,...

Traveling

I am on the road today, heading down to Houston for the Ordinariate's Chrism Mass tonight. The ease with which we travel around these...

Kneeling

Sometimes it is stunning when we, as Catholics, are called upon to defend a Scriptural practice before people who claim to believe the...

Priestly Burnout

A few years ago there was this study that asked all American Catholic priests to answer questions about their ministry. The results were...

This Reason

"The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason that I die." St....

Marks of Faithfulness (5)

Have you ever had a gift given to you that you really did not appreciate, and then you put it away somewhere and forgot about it? Then,...

Marks of Faithfulness (4)

Some people are afraid to explain themselves. I am not referring to defending themselves (yet); I mean giving an explanation of who they...

Marks of Faithfulness (3)

The book of Hebrews tells us (in chapter 12:1-11) that only illegitimate children are without discipline. This was an attitude in the...

Marks of Faithfulness (2)

I touched on suffering a bit in my previous post. We do need to think of it by itself though. You see, there are various kinds of...

Marks of Faithfulness (1)

Someone once claimed that he was living the faith rightly because he attended Mass every Sunday. Although it is a good thing to attend...

Beautiful

"Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve." St. Agnes

Turning to the Lord

I recall speaking to someone once about Priests saying Mass ad orientem (i.e. facing the tabernacle when speaking to God, and the people...

Not One More Day

Which is harder -- to get shot with a bullet, or to say "I'm sorry"? Which is harder -- to have a tooth pulled, or to admit publicly that...

********** Happens

Someone I knew years ago, who had a fairly vulgar way of talking once saw something really bad happen and then said to me "that proves...

More About Fear

How do you think about fear? This last Sunday my homily focused on what a good godly fear really is, and a few people asked for a quick...

All Your Desires

Why do you sin? No, I do not mean, how do you fall into sin, or why are you tempted with specific sins. I mean: what do you expect to get...

Muddy Thinking

Many people's thinking today is muddy. I came across a statement recently that makes a grand display of muddy thinking. In responding to...

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