Over the past few months I have been given a great gift. By American standards I have been poor. It is not real poverty: there has been plenty of (really cheap) food, and I was not homeless. But money is tight. Very tight.
I can write about this now because I am finally convinced that we really are quite [...]
Tag Archives: Salvation
But Where is Jesus?
Posted in Catholicism Also tagged A Swift Kick, Copyright, Liberation Theology, Poverty, Pregnancy, Privilege, Suffering 10 Comments
Going to Hell
At the end of last September I realized that I was headed toward hell.1 I sat in Adoration reading random chapters from Schönborn’s My Jesus and wondering what on earth I was doing with my life.
Schönborn quoted Matthew 25:31-46 and then he wrote:
It is God’s Final Judgement. But how will it come about? What standard [...]
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I Submit the Obvious
Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body. As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate [...]
Single-Hearted Advent
Lord our God, we praise you for your Son, Jesus Christ: he is Emmanuel, the hope of the peoples, he is the wisdom that teaches and guides us, he is the Savior of every nation.
Lord God, let your blessing come upon us as we light the candles of this wreath. May the wreath and its [...]
Choosing Marriage
December 12 is important because it is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is memorable for me because in 2006 I did not get engaged on December 12. For the record, I did not become engaged on any of the other days in 2006, but December 12 is notable because the man with [...]
Love: Or Why I Do Not Try To Convert You
I am a Catholic of the sort who really loves being Catholic. You know, the sort who goes to Church six days a week and is sad on the seventh (which is today, but I guess it is good penance for a Friday?). I do not simply love practicing Catholicism, I really believe that the [...]
Tenebrae
This is a short clip from last week’s Tenebrae service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. Forgive all quality issues, I was trying to pay attention to the service.
Even though Tenebrae is an ancient tradition, I only learned about it a few years ago. My current parish does not have Tenebrae so I was [...]
