My week-long Internet-fast was really refreshing, but it’s great to be back online. Sometime this week I’ll share what I learned, but not today. For today is…Shameless Monday! Last month’s Shameless Monday was great. We had dozens of people share their projects, their websites, and their favorite links. Whether you participated last month or not, …
When I read about the huge impact of Jen Fulwiler’s “technology Fast”, I knew I should do something similar. But being so connected to blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and text messaging has made me leery to pull the plug. To make things more difficult, I just bought my first-ever smart phone which connects me to the …
“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine Because I’ve built up a large collection of duplicate books and resources, each week I’m giving away one or more of these items, absolutely free, no strings attached. You can enter …
Today is the 48th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ death which makes it his unofficial “feast day”. Though he never converted to Catholicism, Lewis was very instrumental in my own journey to the Catholic Church. His apologetical books like Mere Christianity, The Great Divorce, and The Problem of Pain deeply shaped my understanding of God while his Chronicles of Narnia baptized my imagination. And I’m not the only …
Me and my fellow parishioners stumbled through our first Mass this morning with the new translation of the liturgy. Even though I was familiar with the new language, which is much more faithful to the original Latin, I still found it enchanting. I was particularly struck when admitting that I had sinned, “through my fault, through my …
