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Lydia’s Example of Faith

by Fr. KA May 18, 2009 General

One of them, a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth, from the city of Thyatira, a worshiper of God, listened, and the Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what Paul was saying. After she and her household had been baptized, she offered us an invitation, “If you consider me a believer [...]

On The Feast of Catherine

by Fr. KA April 29, 2009 General

I love St. Catherine of Siena, and here are some quotes to live by: “To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.” “Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God’s true nature. God’s heart is more gentle than the Virgin’s [...]

Our Lives … a Canticle of Praise

by Fr. KA April 28, 2009 General

Benedict XVI proclaims virtues of saints, says our lives too can become a canticle of praise to God. Que bueno…

Young, Pretty … Hostage

by Fr. KA April 27, 2009 General

Help to free beauty queen journalist Roxana Seberi, being held hostage in Iran replete with sham courts and false charges. It’s a Blue Ribbon event. This from an Anestheisioboist: A group of bloggers is holding a blog rally in support of Roxana Saberi (who is spending her birthday on a hunger strike in [...]

Heavy Restrictions on Internet Freedom

by Fr. KA April 27, 2009 General

This from Fox News via the EFF. The days of an open, largely unregulated Internet may soon come to an end. A bill making its way through Congress proposes to give the U.S. government authority over all networks considered part of the nation’s critical infrastructure. Under the proposed Cybersecurity Act of 2009, the president would [...]

On Being an INFP

by Fr. KA April 26, 2009 General

From the Personality Pages Site. “Highly creative, artistic and spiritual, they can produce wonderful works of art, music and literature. INFPs are natural artists. They will find great satisfaction if they encourage and develop their artistic abilities. That doesn’t mean that an INFP has to be a famous writer or painter in order to be [...]

On Mercy Sunday…

by Fr. KA April 19, 2009 General

Thoughts on Divine Mercy Sunday… The readings this weekend speak of the recreation brought about by Christ’s sacrifice; and the overflowing of Divine Mercy which cleansed us all and restored the spiritual nature of man in grace. Joseph Solovetchik wrote in The Lonely Man of Faith, about the covenental community created in Genesis II. Man [...]

A Great Video

by Fr. KA April 16, 2009 General

Who says society’s going down the tubes? Youth today hold great promise for the future. Watch this twelve year old deliver a vibrant message much more eloquently and fervently than many from older generations are even wont to attempt. Bravo.

At Eastertide

by Fr. KA April 14, 2009 General

I always love visiting Holy Hill. This year after the Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, there was a huge fire out the window. Come to find out it was a planned fire to help the fields. It’s an imposing facade, and the National Shrine of Our Lady Help [...]

A Growing Interest in Genocides

by Fr. KA April 9, 2009 General

What the title says… I’m interested in learning more over at Genocide Watch. Too, they list Anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia, but don’t mention Modern Persecution of Christians. Which somehow leads me to want to check out this site on Religious Tolerance sometime when I have more time. For starters at least, I’d imagine there are more [...]

Why the Sorrows?

by Fr. KA April 9, 2009 General

Someone was asking me the other day why meditate on the sorrows when there’s so much to be joyful about in life. Very true. However, bringing the mind to bear on the sorrows helps not only to understand how sorrows work in our own lives, but also upon… who’s suffering in the world today? Those [...]

Jeremiah was a Prophet

by Fr. KA April 7, 2009 General

My current read is Jeremiah: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary; the 1965 version by John Bright. We keep reading Jeremiah in the Office during Lent, and I found myself in the huge library here at Holy Hill looking for something on Jeremiah, and that’s what I was very lucky to find. The times [...]

A Shepherd’s Message

by Fr. KA April 6, 2009 General

Here, a thoughtful response to Pope Benedict’s lifting of excommunications (etc…), and to Notre Dame’s invitation to Obama: A Shepherd’s Message, from Daniel Cardinal DiNardo. I sometimes receive letters from people who mar their otherwise intelligent or well-taken arguments by such nasty invectives that the whole argument or point of view is put in jeopardy. [...]

Hanging on to Lent

by Fr. KA April 3, 2009 General

Whew. And what a Lent it’s been so far. So much happening in the world, and in my own life that I haven’t really known where to start blogging. It’s amazing when you think of praying your way through situations, and in general. I had started Lent with a series of meditations on the Sorrows [...]

Change I Can Believe In

by Fr. KA March 28, 2009 General

Yes, I apologize. I hit ‘Publish’ instead of ‘Save Draft’, and sent this out to numerous persons blindly. Rather than commenting frenetically on climate change, it occured to me to research Catholic teachings on the subject in more depth. Catholics and Climate Change has a lot of info. And the coordinator publishes with the USCCB. [...]

Cooling off the Warming

by Fr. KA March 27, 2009 General

I’m no great supporter of anthropogenic global warming theories, and articles such as this one about Freeman Dyson help to demonstrate why. FOR MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson has quietly resided in Princeton, N.J., on the wooded former farmland that is home to his employer, the Institute for Advanced Study, [...]

Who Am I Kidding?

by Fr. KA March 14, 2009 General

Sometimes, learning how to design a weblog is just not worth the effort. And in the interest of simplifying my life… here it is. And aside from all of my worries over the appearance, that really doesn’t matter. Because there’s no content. Time to fix that oversight.

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