"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
There are three upcoming talks this summer at Santa Sophia: “How to be Persuasively Pro-life”, “What were the Crusades?” and “Mary, The Mother Of God – What’s All The Fuss About?” I love Catholic Answers, but their social media presence is pretty terrible. So, in the absence of seeing it anywhere else online, here’s a link to the upcoming events this summer in San Diego:
Huh, never came seen this before…it’s like a Catholic version of Hulu!
If you’ve ever spoken to Jehovah Witnesses, you’ve inevitably run up against the interesting translation choices of their translation of the Bible, the New World Translation (NWT). Douglas from Soul Device discusses how to dialogue with Jehovah Witnesses using this translation…
The concept of “Sensus Fidelium” is often misunderstood. Matt Archbold weighs in…
Do you love good music? Well, next month it’s coming to San Diego!
Last year I wrote about a concert that was being held in Pacific Beach. This concert was put together by Love Good Music, a community who, through crowd-funding, helps artists get their music out to the public. In June two such artists, Chris Cole and Alanna-Marie Boudreau (of Wise Words on Wednesday fame!) will be coming to San Diego and will be performing two concerts.
San Diego – St. Brigid (PDF Poster) | San Diego – Our Lady (PDF Poster)
The first concert will be at St. Brigid’s in Pacific Beach on June 12th and the second will be at Our Lady of Mount Carmel near Poway. Please click on the links above for details. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to be able to attend as I’ll be in Seattle for work :-(. You’ll have to go and enjoy it for me 🙂
In other “good music” news, did everyone else get Audrey Assad’s new EP last night?! 🙂
I can’t believe it’s Monday already! Where did the weekend go? For me, the weekend was filled with fun as our Men’s Huddle headed to the mountains for some much needed relaxation time. So, to get things moving this week, I think we need a song to get the blood pumping… During the Easter period, Byzantine parishes such as mine constantly proclaim in the liturgy “Christ is risen! Indeed he is risen!”. We do this in several languages: English, Greek and Slavonic… So, in keeping with the liturgical season, here’s a really nice cover of Matt Maher’s song “Christ is risen”:
Let no one caught in sin remain
Inside the lie of inward shame
We fix our eyes upon the cross
And run to him who showed great love
And bled for us
Freely you bled, for us
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave!
Beneath the weight of all our sin
You bow to none but heavens will
No scheme of hell, no scoffer’s crown
No burden great can hold you down
In strength you reign
Forever let your church proclaim
Oh death! Where is your sting?
Oh hell! Where is your victory?
Oh Church! Come stand in the light!
Our God is not dead, he’s alive! he’s alive!
Christ is risen from the dead
Trampling over death by death
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave
Christ is risen from the dead
We are one with him again
Come awake, come awake!
Come and rise up from the grave
Rise up from the grave…
One of the larger parishes in San Diego is St. Brigid‘s in Pacific Beach. Until relatively recently, I had no idea that, in addition to having a parish website, it also has a blog with articles submitted by members of the young adult community:
