"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
In preparation for the meeting of our C.S. Lewis reading group today, I watched this wonderful presentation from Andrew Lazo on the transformation power of friendship and how it transformed the lives of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien:
In the Eastern Church, Advent is seen more as a penitential period and therefore involves fasting. Man, I’m glad that’s over…
Only a month and a half and we get to start Lent. Yaaaaaaaaay….
A couple of weeks ago, my friend Scott Weeman lead a webinar at Ave Maria Press as part of the launch of his new book, Twelve Steps and the Sacraments: A Catholic journey through Recovery:
He was also recently on Catholic Answers Live and you can listen to that interview here.
“A bad day for the ego, is a good day for the soul.”
– Annie, Peregrina, USA
This weekend, our San Diego C.S. Lewis reading group will be meeting to discuss Chapter 4 of “The Four Loves”, which is the chapter which speaks about “Friendship”. In preparation for this, I watched the following cracking lecture from Dr. Louis Markos. It certainly gave me a lot to think about, including the question: “Should I go to events more often wearing a tux?”
Today’s music isn’t just a single track, but the whole Ventus playlist from Emmanuel Worship. This is what I’ll be listening today at work…
Together with a couple of guys from the Council of Man, I’m reading through the Bible this year. We’ve just finished reading through the genealogies of Genesis.
The last time I read through Genesis, I found it really helpful to visualize the genealogies. So, if anyone else out there is reading through the Bible this year, hopefully you’ll find this helpful:
