"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
“As long as we live, we fight, and as long as we are fighting, that is a sign that we are not defeated and that the good Spirit dwells within us. And if death does not meet you as the victor, he should find you a warrior” – St. Augustine
To save on typing, I’m now just going to start sending people a link to this post when they offend me with their horrible grammar 🙂
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“Theology On Tap” continues apace. Last week we heard from Fr. Matt Spahr, the pastor at the Immaculata parish, speaking about discernment. This week we heard from Cy Kellett:
Aug 7: “What is your purpose? What is your call?”
Learning to listen to God’s voice and follow it. -Fr. Matt Spahr
Aug 14: “Citizens and Disciples”
Voting your conscience! What does that look like?- Cy Kellett
Aug 21: “How to live the single life AND meet Mr/Mrs Right”
Living the single life according to God’s will.- Karen Saroki
Aug 28th: “Love, dating and relationships”
Calling all people wanting to love and be loved according to God’s holy desire.” – Jackie Francois
Here’s Cy’s biography:
Cyril Jones-Kellett is the Community Relations Officer for AM 1000 KCEO, San Diego – an Immaculate Heart Radio Station.
He served for a decade as editor-in-chief of San Diego’s Southern Cross. Before his writing career, he spent years working on the streets of Boston with the homeless mentally ill. Part of that time was spent living in an urban Catholic Worker house dedicated to serving homeless men. He also spent four years supervising a home for severely traumatized children.
For fun he likes to spend time with his three teens tying to impress them with his knowledge of pop culture.
Aside from the digs at my homeland, it was a great talk. Here’s the audio:
Cy Kellett – Main Talk Cy Kellett – Q&A
(The intro/outro music is Public Domain and available here)
UPDATE: Cy mentioned Peter Singer during the Q&A. For more information on his opinions, please see my post entitled A Nice Conversation About Killing Small Children.
(In case you’re not up-to-date with how the kids speak today, you can learn about YOLO here)
At the beginning of the year I posted my Twelve for 2012, the twelve books I was going to read this year. I thought I’d post an update on how I’m doing with the list.
Here are the books on the list which I finished:
The Church and the New Media
– Brandon Vogt
I’m Not Being Fed!
– Jeff Cavins
The Passion of Jesus Christ
– John Piper
Father Brown of the Church of Rome
– G.K Chesterton
The Story of Christianity
– Justo Gonzalez
I suppose that it’s no surprise that I was unable to restrict myself to my initial reading list! Yes, that’s right, I’ve been naughty and read some books that weren’t on the list:
The One Thing
– Matthew Kelly
Pillar of Fire and Truth
– Catholic Answers
Quitter
– Jon Acuff
I am currently reading:
How To Listen When God Is Speaking
– Mitch Pacwa, SJ
…and here are the books which I still have yet to read:
Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Godless Delusion – Patrick Madrid & Kenneth Hensley
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB
Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
So I have six books to read in five months. This means that I have to read at least one book each month until the end of the year. Fortunately, the books on the list which I’ve already read are generally the longer ones. All the remaining books to read, with the exception of Pope Benedict’s Jesus of Nazareth, are reasonably short.
This morning, in honour of the Assumption, I reposted my “Biblical Mary” article on Facebook (Matt Fradd wrote on the same topic today – great minds…).
As a follow-up, here’s a video of Scott Hahn speaking about the Assumption. As usual, he packs in a vast amount of material and information, so hang on to your hats…
And for something a little lighter…
