Friday Frivolity: Real Men of Jesus
Thank goodness it’s nearly the weekend! My, this week has moved slowly!
Month: February 2013
Wise words for newlyweds
Last month I wrote a post talking about the large number of my friends who got engaged or married in December. In the article I asked my married friends to write in the Comments, giving their advice for my newly-engaged and newly-married friends.
Many thanks to all of you who responded to my request and shared with us lessons learned. Here are some my favourite quotations…
Mega Adoration
In case you don’t know, this Sunday evening (10th February) in San Diego there is going to be “Mega Adoration” at the Immaculata:
Several hundred Young Adults will be praying a Holy Hour from 5pm-6pm. There will be a social afterwards. For more details, please see the Facebook event.
Wise Words on Wednesday: We’ll all be in trouble…
Metaphor? Metaphor?
[N]o ambiguity or room for metaphor remains when He declares that “the bread also which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh.” If that is a metaphor, then we are in trouble, since our salvation depends upon the death of Jesus’ actual body of flesh and blood on the Cross! – Jeff Cavins, “I’m not being fed!”
Pope Posting
One of the reasons I began this blog was in response to repeated Papal exhortations for Catholics to engage the digital world. There were other reasons why I started which I have mentioned before, but that was definitely one of them.
At the end of last month, Pope Benedict issued a document for World Communications Day. I have posted the document in its entirety below, underlining the parts which I thought were really important.
I think it should be required reading for all Catholics who have a Facebook account…
Contraception and Abortion
I have rather mixed feelings about Michael Voris. Many times he’s often spot on with his criticism, but I often find him unhelpfully aggressive and combative. Since we’ve just had the 40th Anniversary of Roe v Wade, I thought I’d post this video of his where he talks about the relationship between contraception and abortion:
Here’s the document that Mr. Voris quotes:
“In some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception… for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail“
– 1992 Casey vs. Planned Parenthood
The link between contraception and abortion is undeniable.
Total Apostasy
When speaking to non-Catholic Christians, Jehovah Witnesses, Mormons and Muslims, the discussion will often turn to “The Great Apostasy”. All these groups believe, to varying degrees, that there was a massive departure from “real” Christianity in the Early Church and the Faith was lost.
Fortunately, a little knowledge of Scripture and Early Church history can rebut this assertion and this should be in the arsenal of every Catholic. With this in mind, I’d invite you to go and read the fantastic post by Brantly Millegan over at “Young, Evangelical and Catholic”:
