Category: Catholicism

Update on “Twelve for 2012″…

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I was reading Jennifer Fulwiler’s blog entry The Mystery of the Catholic Book Buyer and it prompted me to write another update for my Twelve for 2012…

Here are the finished books:

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
How To Listen When God Is Speaking – Mitch Pacwa, SJ
Godless Delusion – Patrick Madrid & Kenneth Hensley

Here are the bonus books/documents I’ve read which were not on the list:

The One Thing – Matthew Kelly
Pillar of Fire and Truth – Catholic Answers
Quitter – Jon Acuff
The meaning of Vocation – Pope John Paul II
Orientalium Ecclesiarum – Second Vatican Council
Deus Caritas Est – Pope Benedict XVI

I am currently reading:

Jesus of Nazareth – Pope Benedict XVI
Vatican II: The Crisis And The Promise – Alan Schreck (I’m reading this for the course I’m doing)

The books still to read:

Rediscover Catholicism – Matthew Kelly
Jesus Among Other Gods – Ravi Zacharias
Philosophy For Dummies – Thomas Morris
The Path of Life – Cyprian Smith OSB

Pauline Tools

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As I’ve mentioned before, I’m currently leading a Bible study through the Book of Acts. I wanted to do a quick post to make a note of where I got the maps for the study. I got them from the Archdiocese of Toronoto. The site gives a brief synopsis of each of Paul’s letters and also has three great maps showing St. Paul’s missionary journeys:

First Missionary JourneySecond Missionary JourneyThird Missionary Journey

TOT: Social Media – How to use it without being used by it

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Faith on Fire“Faith on Fire” is a new initiative here in San Diego to help nurture the younger young adult community.

Like “Theology On Tap”, it is held at a bar or restaurant where there is a talk given by a speaker which is followed by Q&A and some discussion. However, unlike “Theology On Tap”, it is restricted to only those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five.

As I mentioned the other day, this Tuesday I was drafted in at the last minute to cover for the speaker who was ill. Fr. Jacob was scheduled to speak on the topic:

“Social Media and Faith: How to use it without being used by it” 

Since he couldn’t make it, I gave the talk instead. The presentation file is available for download here and the audio of the evening is available for download below:

Main Talk (Download)

Audio Player

I based part of my talk on my blog post Don’t Be Too Eager To Hit “Send” and The Mobile Challenge. At some point in the future I’ll hopefully do some other posts on the subject of Social Media to help consolidate my thoughts in this area.

(The book which gave away at the beginning of the Q&A time was The Church and New Media by Brandon Vogt)

Best of British: Part 4

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I haven’t done a Best of British posting in ages so I figured it’s about time.

In these posts I wanted to introduce Americans to some of the classic British comedy I watched growing up and which was so influential in the cultivation of my “unique” sense of humour (it’s always good to know whom to blame!).

Red Dwarf

Most people know that I’m a bit of a bibliophile and that I love to read, but I don’t think it’s common knowledge which book I’ve picked up and re-read the most times. The title which gets that dubious honour is The Red Dwarf Omnibus, a collection of books based upon the TV comedy called “Red Dwarf”.

Red Dwarf is a comedy set in deep space about crew of the mining ship “Red Dwarf”. The crew consists of the last human alive, the hologram of his dead bunkmate, a creature descended from a domestic cat, a neurotic android and the ship’s senile computer. If that isn’t the formula for comedy gold, I don’t know what is…

In the clip below, the last human alive, Dave, is teaching the neurotic android, Kryten, how to lie:

Men Behaving Badly

Some of the jokes in “Red Dwarf” were definitely more on the “toilet humour” end of the comedy spectrum. Speaking of immature comedies…one show I loved during my teenage years was the suitably infantile “Men Behaving Badly”. This TV show followed the antics of Tony and Garry, two flatmates struggling with adulthood and grown-up life when all they really want to do is sit on the sofa and drink beer.

The following snippet comes from the end of an episode where Tony has been trying to diet…unsuccessfully. Also, Garry’s friends have found out he has actually got a lot of money squirreled away in his bank account. Because everyone keeps asking him for money, Garry goes out and spends all his money on expensive beer and high-end watches for his friends in an effort to get things back to “normal”:

Bottom

No examination of British toilet humour would be complete without a brief look at “Bottom” 😉. Below is probably my favourite scene in the show’s entire run, in which Eddie tries to teach Richie how to play chess…

Needless to say, I wasn’t allowed to watch this show! 😉

Real Men Still Do This

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I was at lunch with a new friend the other day and, as a matter of course, as we were leaving the café, I opened the store’s door for her. Her reaction was one of utter surprise! She asked me if opening doors was an “English thing”! I replied no, it’s a “real man” thing.

It’s a complete joke!

You may have heard the joke that if you see a man opening a car door for a lady then it’s either a new lady or a new car. Unfortunately, this joke appears to be, in fact, reality. This is tragic! It’s so sad when a man does not think enough of the lady in his company so as to perform this simple act of kindness. It’s even more heartbreaking when a husband does not do this for the woman to whom he has pledged his life.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her…husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies… – Ephesians 5:25, 28

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Tuesday Adventures

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Yesterday at midday I got a text from Carrie, the Young Adult Coordinator for the Diocese. The speaker for that night’s “Faith On Fire” was ill and she needed a replacement speaker. This is how I came to find myself a few hours later standing in front of forty or so 18-25 year olds giving the talk “Social Media and Faith-“How to use it without being used by it”…

Fortunately, I wasn’t the only one speaking that night. After speaking for about half an hour, Timmerie Millington got up and shared with us how Social Media has played an important part in her Pro-Life work.

Throughout the night I rather shamelessly plugged my blog, so if you’re visiting here for the first time because of that, welcome! While you’re here, you should also go check out Timmerie’s Blog:

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