"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
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:
Since we’re now finally coming to the end of the Christmas season…
Hand on heart, there are some parts of the whole chastity movement which I find really annoying. For me, the chief offender here is “the modesty talk”. Now, to be clear, I have heard some excellent talks on modesty. However, I’ve also sat and listened to many which I thought were asinine, prudish and made me roll my eyes until I felt dizzy.
This week I came across this video by Emily Wilson where she expresses similar frustrations. She too gets irritated when the primary reason given for girls dressing modestly is to not lead men to lustful thoughts. She thinks that the primary reason for dressing modestly lies somewhere else…
Emily gets it. Emily dresses classily. Be like Emily.
Given that we’ve just celebrated Christmas and the New Year is just around the corner, it seems a fitting time to post this video from Douglas Gresham, C.S. Lewis’ stepson, who gave this sermon at Liberty University back in 2011…
“The Nativity” by Gari Melchers
In our Advent study this week, we touched on the subject of priesthood and I asked my favourite trick question: how many priests are there in the Catholic Church? Fr. Mike answers this question in the rather oddly-titled video “Why we don’t drink coffee at Mass”…
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