Tag: featured

Roman Catholic All Day

2 comments

Today I wanted to advertise Roman Catholic All Day, a Catholic clothing website which was recently started by two of my friends here in San Diego:

Not only do they have some great products, but 10% of the value of each order is donated to a Catholic organization. So, buying one of their t-shirts practically means you’re performing a spiritual or corporal work of mercy! 🙂

Their clothing line will be expanding soon through a Kickstarter Project. In the meantime, take a look at heir Facebook page and give them some feedback on their upcoming products.

Christmas is only a couple of months away now, so why not buy a t-shirt or two for the favourite Catholic in your life? Oh, and just in case you were wondering, my size is a “medium”… 😉

Mum’s Trip

Leave a comment

As some of you know, my Mum came to visit me in San Diego recently. In case anyone was looking for ideas for things to do when friends visit, I thought I’d post some of the things we did (or tried to do) while she was here :

Church
Saturday Midday Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary
Daily Mass at The Immaculata
Evening Mass at The Mission
Sunday Divine Liturgy at Holy Angels

Food
Sandwich lunch at Hillcrest Sandwich Store
Lunch at Peohe’s
Gelato at Pappalecco (Little Italy)
Sunday Brunch at Pappalecco (Hillcrest)
Dinner at El Prado

Walks
Balboa Park and the Spanish Village
Pacific Beach. Watch the surfing off Tourlamine
Evening walk along Seaport Village
Mission Bay
Torrey Pines

“Culture”
Cinema Under the Stars
Catholic Answers Gala
Little Italy Farmer’s Market
Show at The Old Globe
Fashion Valley Mall
Drinks at the Wine Cabanna

Mum on the beach

The Garter Alternative

2 comments

There is one wedding “tradition” which I had never come across prior to coming to the United States. It’s the “tossing of the garter” where, in front of all guests, the groom takes off his bride’s garter (sometimes using only with his teeth) and then tosses it to all the single guys, much in the same way as a bride throws a bouquet:

garter

Now, maybe I’m overly sensitive or maybe it’s just because I’m English, but I think this is a custom which is both extremely tacky and undignified:

Read more

The Catholic News You Never Hear

4 comments

I’ve started reading “Rediscovering Catholicism” by Matthew Kelly and I wanted to share a one quotations from the opening pages:

“Every single day the Catholic Church feeds, houses, and clothes more people, takes care of more sick people, visits more prisoners, and educates more people than any other institution on the face of the earth could ever hope to…

The Catholic education system alone saves American taxpayers eighteen billion dollars a year…

This year, catholic charities will provide 2.2 million free meals to the hungry and the needy of Chicago. We don’t ask them if they are Catholic – we just ask them if they are hungry”
– Matthew Kelly, Rediscovering Catholicism

When there is a scandal in the Catholic Church it is blasted from every media outlet so that the whole world gets to hear about it. Yet how is it that the continued good works of the Church so often go unreported?

Catholic Charities

Aside from the fact that it’s not as sensational, it’s not news! This is the same service which the Church has offered the world every day for two thousand years. It ceased being news a long time ago…

That would be an ecumenical matter

Leave a comment

This weekend I finished recording another document of the Church onto MP3. It is the decree on ecumenism from the Second Vatican Council, Unitatis Redintegratio.


Unitatis Redintegratio.mp3

In that vein, I’d also invite you to read the article Because our love has grown cold, written by my friend Nelson. I think his blog post points to the key thing which is needed in order for there to any meaningful ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and non-Catholics.

“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one — I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” – John 17:20-23

1 … 127 128 129 130 131 … 171