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Category: Catholicism
Bigger than Bob
I recently started to take a little bit more interest in Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This concerns itself with ensuring that when someone uses a search engine to look for something, if your site is at all relevant to the search, it will appear as close to the top of the search results as possible.
It was only after I decided to call my blog “Restless Pilgrim” that I found out that it’s also the name of a Bob Dylan biography. Well, today I’m pleased to announce that I’m bigger than Bob Dylan!
Okay, now to get that #1 spot…
Daughters Of The King 2.0
We’re currently having some venue issues, but I’m pleased to announce that Daughters Of The King is making a return at the start of next year…
Calling in the clerics
Since there’s no JP2 Group on Thursday, I’m not going to be doing the Lectionary Notes this week. Instead I thought I’d share a sermon instead…
Thanks to Ready with a Reason for finding this one. Below is a video of Fr. John Riccardo, a Catholic priest, who was invited to speak at Kensington Church, a local nondenominational congregation:
Anything better?
I saw this a while ago on Aged Coconut:
Translation: “Is there anything better than to give your life to God?”
A Self-Made Man
The Tantrum Song
I’ve just got back home from my Holy Hour. Despite being brought up a practising Catholic and being in Catholic education for the majority of my schooling, I somehow missed out on many quintessentially Catholic experiences, two of which are Adoration and Benediction.
I remember an incident a few years ago when my girlfriend and I were asked to do the music at a healing Mass. We presented our song suggestions to the planning team and they were well received, but it was also requested that, at Benediction after Mass, we play “Tantum Ergo”.
At this point in my journey I was vaguely aware of what Benediction was, but neither of us were familiar with the hymn “Tantum Ergo”. We tried to “push back” on this suggestion and recommended other songs instead, ones with which we were more familiar. However, the planning team was adamant, we had to do “Tantum Ergo”…
After spending some time looking at the music we eventually concluded that it was “actually not too bad”. However, because of the unusually strong reaction to our suggestion to play something else, that hymn was forever dubbed in our minds as “The Tantrum Song”!