Wise Words on Wednesday: Not just better corpses
Jesus did not die to make bad men better, but to make dead men live.
Fr. Stephen Freeman
Author: pilgrim
PWJ: S2E20 – TGD 13 – “The Dwarf and The Tragedian”
Last week we read that Sarah Smith was starting to get through to her ghostly husband. In today’s chapter we see the conclusion of that encounter and MacDonald explains why misery must one day be unable to affect joy…
S2E20: “The Dwarf and The Tragedian” (Download)
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Read moreMusic Monday: Fix My Eyes
Today’s music recommendation comes from the guys at The Lamp-Post Listener. This is “Fix My Eyes” by Kings Kaleidoscope:
When my heart is weary, when my soul is weak
When it seems I can’t traverse the trail before me
I survey the glory of your agony
And I find the will to fight for what’s before me
Cause you ran the race enduring for your glory
I fix my eyes on you, the founder and the finisher of our faith
I fix my eyes on you, the solace in your suffering is my strength
As I fight to follow, you’re my righteous guide
And you train me to delight in all that’s holy
Heal my broken body, cure my crooked stride
Throw off every weight and sin that clings so closely
I will run the race enduring for your glory
You help me breathe, you’re the only life I need
You died for me, you’re the only life I need
The World is not your oyster
Tollers and Jack
Friday Frivolity: Escaping a Prayer Circle
Improving the church
I recently came across this article from Daniel Dozier, a Deacon in the Byzantine Catholic Church, about his top ten ideas for Catholic Reform. I have to say, I’m kind of inclined to agree with him…
Step 1: Repent Publicly and Immediately and Announce a Plan of Reform.
Step 2: Investigate and Clean House.
Step 3: Create an Episcopal Accountability Board.
Step 4: Create Many More Bishops and Many More Dioceses.
Step 5: Build Fraternity Among the Remaining Clergy.
Step 6: Build an Organic Pipeline of Vocations for the Priesthood Through the Restored Use of Minor Orders, an Apprenticeship Model of Formation, an Extended Period in the Diaconate and with Required Professional Work Experience.
Step 7: Viri Probati.
Step 8: Begin a Preaching Campaign on Living an Evangelical Catholic Life.
Step 9: End the Liturgical Nonsense. End it. END IT.
Step 10: Restore the Election of Diocesan/Eparchial Bishops, Create a National Catholic Synod of Bishops with a Patriarch who Votes in the Election of the Pope of Rome.
