"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
It has been a while since I’ve done a “My favourite people” post. Today will just be a short one on one of my favourite comedians, Jim Gaffigan. If you have no idea who this guy is, this short video should give you a feel for what he’s like:
As he mentions in the interview, Jim is Catholic and that naturally spills out over into his comedy, particularly with regards to his material on dating, marriage and especially family:
Church is built during the week and celebrated on Sundays
– Elm Grove Journal
Clients From Hell recently had a great story about a designer working with a religious group… 🙂
We’ll be leaving classical music for the next few weeks. I know I’ve shared this video in an earlier Wise Words on Wednesday post, but I think it’s so good, I want to post it again. Here’s Theology Of The Body in a song, Colleen Nixon‘s “You wouldn’t mind”:
My lips aren’t kissable they’re normally chapped
but you wouldn’t mind, baby you wouldn’t mind
My hair is frizzy I don’t straighten it flat
but you wouldn’t mind baby you wouldn’t mind…
…because you love me completely
you won’t separate my body from my soul
I’m so lucky that you chose me
I can’t wait to spend my life with you
My eyes are brown and you don’t wish they were blue
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that
You don’t have to say “I love you” cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that…
Body and soul, body and soul our love is always becoming
and it’s dependent upon, the way we die to ourselves
and the depth of our commitment to loving the body and soul, body and soul,
I will give and never take
I’m so faint with love for you body and soul, body and soul
I love you body and soul, body and soul
You don’t have to say I love ’cause you show me you do
and I’m thankful for that baby, I’m thankful for that
In the past I wrote a few posts on the subject of marriage, but being without a wedding ring myself, I’ve generally posted the advice of others (including commenters!). Here’s some more advice from someone who knows what they’re talking about 🙂
Today I want to share a quotation I often refer to on the subject of justification and the Protestant doctrine of Sola Fide. Often non-Catholics will tell us (incorrectly) that we believe in salvation by works. For this reason, I think it’s useful to hear what Pope Benedict has to say on the primacy of faith in salvation, and even the sense in which Luther was right, that we are saved by “faith alone”…
Being “just” simply means being with Christ and in Christ. And this suffices. Further observances are no longer necessary. For this reason Luther’s phrase: “faith alone” is true, if it is not opposed to faith in charity, in love. Faith is looking at Christ, entrusting oneself to Christ, being united to Christ, conformed to Christ, to his life. And the form, the life of Christ, is love; hence to believe is to conform to Christ and to enter into his love. So it is that in the Letter to the Galatians in which he primarily developed his teaching on justification St Paul speaks of faith that works through love
– Pope Benedict XVI, Wednesday Audience, 19th November 2008
Do you love the altar call, but can’t stand all the work it takes to get to one?