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Royal Doors

July 21, 2016 pilgrim One comment

On a forum I heard someone mention “Christ – Our Pascha”, a Catechism of the Ukrainian Catholic Church and while googling it I came across Royal Doors, a rather lovely-looking website for Eastern Catholics:

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Music Monday: When I am afraid

July 18, 2016 pilgrim Leave a comment

I’m still in an acapella mood… Today’s offering is a group from my former home in San Diego. This is Selah UCSD Christian A Cappella singing “When I am afraid”:

When I am afraid I will trust in You
When I’m overcome I will cling onto
The Rock that is higher, He’s higher
The Rock that is higher

When my enemy’s too strong for me
I don’t know how to fight the fear
That comes against my heart and mind
I call upon the name of Christ

He’s higher, He’s higher
The Rock, He is higher

O When I am afraid I will trust in You
When I’m overcome I will cling onto
The Rock that is higher, He’s higher
The Rock that is higher

When my enemy’s surrounding me
He comes to steal my joy, my peace
I let go of my reasoning
And fall upon the Rock

I will not build my life upon the passing sands
Of how I feel inside from one moment to the next
But I will love you Lord, my Rock, my God, my Strength
A precious cornerstone that floods of death could never shake

O For there is no peace of mind, outside of truth in Christ
For the fear is real and it’s power can kill
But the stability of our times, the stability of our times
Will be the Rock, that is higher, He’s higher,
The Rock He’s is higher

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Friday Frivolity: Biggest Temptations

July 15, 2016 pilgrim Leave a comment

Priests

Once four priests were spending a few nights in a cabin together. In the evening, they decided to share their biggest temptations with one another.

“Well, its embarrassing,” said the first priest, “ but I look at pictures I should not.”

“My temptation is worse,” said the second priest, “it is gambling.”

“No mine is the worst,” said the third, “I drink too much, once I broke into the Sacramental Wine.”

The fourth priest was quiet. “Brothers, I hate to share this,” he said, “my temptation is worst of all, its gossip and if you will excuse me, I need to make a few calls.”

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A powerful sermon

July 12, 2016 pilgrim Leave a comment

Sermon

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Music Monday: Amazing Grace

July 11, 2016 pilgrim Leave a comment

I’ve been an acapella mood recently, so expect to see a bit more of that over the next couple of weeks. Here’s a rendition of the “Amazing Grace” by an all-female a cappella group from Brigham Young University. Mormons singing a Protestant hymn, but my, they do it beautifully!

Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I’m found
Was blind, but now I see

Through countless dangers, doubts and fears
I have already come
Gods grace has brought me safely here
And grace will lead me home

My chains are gone
I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace

His guiding hand shall be my stay
His strength with me abide
And though I stumble day by day
He shall not leave my side.

My chains are gone, I’ve been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood, His mercy reigns
Unending love, amazing grace.

This earth will one day melt like snow
The sun refuse to shine
Yet God, who sent me here below*
Will be forever mine.
You’ll be forever mine.

* The more traditional line here is “But God, who called me here below”. I haven’t confirmed it, but I have a suspicion that the line used in the video might be an attempt to sneak into the song the Mormon idea of pre-existent souls. I’m choosing to interpret it in the sense that, while on Earth, God sends me to share the Gospel 🙂