May 2019 – Page 3 – Restless Pilgrim

PWJ: S2E17 – TGD 11 – “The Mother and The Lizard”

May 14, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

This week we meet two different ghosts, both of whom have disordered loves. The first is a mother who “loves” her son so much that it obscures everything, even God. The second is a man who struggles with lust, represented by a lizard on his shoulder. Fortunately, we finally have a ghost who chooses Heaven! Yay!

Today’s episode we continue discussing disordered loves and how certain kinds of love can be mistaken more easily for the real thing and, in setting themselves up as gods, become demonic.

S2E17: “The Mother and The Lizard” (Download)

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Music Monday: Only a Holy God

May 13, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

My buddy Russ recently posted this song, “Only a Holy God” by City Alight:

Who else commands all the hosts of heaven
Who else could make every king bow down
Who else can whisper and darkness trembles
Only a Holy God

What other beauty demands such praises
What other splendour outshines the sun
What other majesty rules with justice
Only a Holy God

Come and behold Him
The One and the Only
Cry out, sing holy
Forever a Holy God
Come and worship the Holy God

What other glory consumes like fire
What other power can raise the dead
What other name remains undefeated
Only a Holy God

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Sixty days on the streets

May 12, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

Homelessness ministry was the first ministry I really through myself into back in England. The issue has often perplexed and troubled me. I was therefore very interested when I found out about a TV programme where an explorer went to purposefully live on the streets for sixty days in some of Britain’s largest cities:

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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus

May 11, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

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Friday Frivolity: Book Anathema

May 10, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

Back in 2013, I wrote a short post about Book Anathemas. Put simply, people would write curses in the front of their books to make sure people returned them if they borrowed them. Well, I recently came across another:

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TOT: Christina Barba on “Truth”

May 9, 2019 pilgrim Leave a comment

April 11th 2018: Christina Barba @ Mission San Diego

About the speaker: Proclaiming the dignity of human life has been a lifelong passion for Cristina. Since her early childhood, she has been involved in the pro-life movement with her family at events such as prayer vigils, life chains, and much more. While attending The Pennsylvania State University, she served as president of Penn State Students for Life organization, leading the efforts to build the culture of life on campus. Upon graduation, Cristina attended the Emmanuel School of Mission in Rome, Italy, a mission organization sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity. She has spent the last decade in full time mission in the pro-life, chastity and new evangelization world.

In July of 2014, Cristina founded The Culture Project International. Her vision was to restore culture through the experience of virtue. Since its inception, The Culture Project has provided a mission program to more than 50 missionaries who have served 45 dioceses and invited over 100,000 students to reclaim sexual integrity and the meaning of life, thereby inviting our culture to be fully alive.

Cristina received Honorable Mention by Our Sunday Visitor as one of the Inspiring Catholics of 2012. In 2016, she was one of the recipients of the Students for Life of America, Defender of Life Award.

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