The will to love
Love is not sensible piety. Never forget this distinction. [Love] is a disposition of the soul, of the heart, and, above all, of the will.
– Fr. Jean C. J. d’Elbee
(Thanks to Alanna for this one)
Month: April 2014
One and a half thousand!
This morning’s post marks the 1,500th entry on this blog. I don’t know about you, but I can tell you that Stephen Colbert is extremely excited about this…
I began this blog about four years ago, on 11th June 2010 to be exact. At that time in my life, a few things converged and I decided that I’d have a go at running a blog. I began with a free blog at WordPress.com and, after completing a hundred posts, I decided to buy my own domain name and do things “properly”!
Since 1,500 posts is quite a milestone, I’ve put in a little bit of thought into what I could do to mark this anniversary and help take this blog to “the next level”, whatever that is! So, with that, I have a couple of announcements…
Music Monday: Jesus in disguise
Today’s music comes from one of my long-time favourites, Brandon Heath:
Ever get something in your head?
It’s nothing you heard or something you read
Ever had a cut but you never saw a blade?
Brought to your knees but you never prayed?
Jesus in disguise, Jehovah passing by
The burden of a tear hanging in your eye
Jesus in disguise, a scar across the sky
You were looking for a king you would never recognize
Ever feel like you been somewhere before?
You hold the key, you know which door
Speak the word your lips have never known
Because your heart told you so
So open my eyes wide as I can
Blind as I am, blind as I am…
The Canonizing Machine
Since JP2 and Johnny XXIII are to be declared to be canonized Saints this weekend, I thought it would be good to ask the question: How Does the Catholic Church Declare Official Saints?
Saint Worship
In a recent newsletter from the Coming Home Network there was the first part of a work by Orestes Brownson (1803-1876), entitled “Saint Worship”. In today’s post I just wanted to post a few extracts since it ties into some of the recent discussion concerning Our Lady.
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Restless Popery
Yesterday on Facebook, Joe from Shameless Popery shared that he had intended to write a post on the supposed Pagan origins of Easter, but that our mutual friend, Steve, had referred him to Easter: The Pagan Conspiracy, a post I wrote on the same subject last year.
Joe had initially said he wasn’t going to write his own defense. Fortunately for us, rather than depriving the world of another of Joe’s excellent articles, he did write his own post on the subject, building off my original entry:
