5 Fun Facts about Archangels 39

Two great things about today’s Feast

First, it’s a feast! So we need to celebrate like it’s a feast.

Second, it’s a feast to honor the Mighty Archangels, which gives us an opportunity to talk about something completely different for a change. More…

To Think Like a Child… 12

Just another Sunday Gospel reflection…

Okay.. Remember what I was saying about memes the other day? Scratch that (partially). Baby memes are still cool!

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Sunday Morning in Caesarea Philippi 13

Who do you say that I am?

This Sunday’s Gospel reading (Mk 8:27-35) is about things we take for granted.

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If You Could Tell the World One Thing Today, What Would You Tell It? 12

September 14, Exaltation of the Holy Cross

May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world

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Happy Birthday Mary! 12

September 8, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
In the Church’s liturgical calendar, we celebrate 3 birthdays: Jesus, John the Baptist and the Blessed Virgin Mary. More…

Fallible and Infallible Tradition 13

Have you ever stopped to consider just how many things we believe to be true as Christians are not explicitly spelled out in the Gospel?

Take, for instance, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. More…

If You Want to Keep Your Tradition, Then You Must Keep Your Balance 23

Welcome to the “real world,” Kid.

When most americans hear the word tradition, here is what immediately comes to mind: More…

Gregory the Great 6

Labor day is a “movable” holiday. According to the Gregorian calendar, today is the memorial of Saint Gregory the Great. Therefore we own this great man at least a brief panegyric.  More…

Enigmatic John the Baptist 15


“Among those born of women there has been none greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” More…

Breakfast with Augustine 19

Noli foras ire, in teipsum redi; in interiore homine habitat veritas; et si tuam naturam mutabilem inveneris, transcende et teipsum.

“Do not look outside yourself but turn, rather, inside yourself. In the inner man dwells truth. And if therein you find your mutable nature, transcend even yourself. But remember that when you transcend yourself, you transcend the rational soul. Proceed onward, therefore, to the place where the very light of reason is illuminated.” — De Vera Religione, 39, 72 More…