Look. I know it’s taboo to talk poop. It’s even more taboo to talk about what you do while you poop. But let’s be honest…you know you do it. Yes, everybody poops…but now most of you are doing it with your smartphone. (If you don’t like talking about poop, try this other post I wrote [...]
There have been some changes to the Mass. Here’s why…(with a lot of great resources below). First, the essence of the Mass is not changing, there have just been some improvements to how we celebrate the Mass in English. The text of the Mass is contained in what’s called the “Roman Missal,” and this latest [...]
“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.” – Pope John Paul II And the place we need to start is with [...]
Seriously though… All fun aside – realizing that some world views out there, I think, too quickly deny reason because of their faith – please don’t forget that faith and reason work together. :-) And that true faith, rather than contradicting reason, actually strengthens reason. When we forget that, we end up at two extremes, either [...]
The complete and full definition of something is often much deeper than the words that attempt to articulate it. In other words, how we define something may only express a mere part of the reality of the object being defined. That may be because we simply don’t know much about it yet. Or it may [...]
This song recently became one of my favorite songs. The way the delicate words roll off of this voice and into the melody is, quite simply, beautiful. Not only do the words have such profound meaning, while also being brilliantly poetic and melodic, but it all meshes together perfectly as one. It is song at [...]
Love it! This Madonna and Child from the Catacomb of Priscilla is the oldest known representation of this most touching and human aspect of Christ’s Incarnation. The emphasis on the maternal love of Mary for the Child Jesus reflects the early Christian community’s reverence for the Mother of God, and for its understanding of God’s [...]
