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True beauty
As you may know, my son Lucas was born with a genetic condition called Prader-Willi Syndrome, about which you can read more here. Lucas looks like any other 3 year-old boy except that he uses a walker...
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Book Review: Church Militant Field Manual
My blessed wife gave to me for Christmas what I consider to be the most important book in my library, Fr. Richard M. Heilman’s Church Militant Field Manual. In case you are not familiar, the Church...
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The Art of Listening
“Listen carefully, my son, to the master’s instructions, and attend to them with the ear of your heart.” ~The Rule of Saint Benedict I am guilty. This morning at Mass, like every morning at Mass,...
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How to Talk to an Atheist (if you must)
The other night, I was the victim of a liberal Democrat Atheist’s ramblings about global warming, hypocrisy, and diatribe about how Evangelical Christians are the biggest perpetrators of divorce and...
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The Feast of The Annunciation: Mama Mary Loves Us!
Today is the Feast of The Annunciation of Our Lord. It holds particular significance for me because it is the anniversary of the day my wife learned that we would be parents for the first time. My...
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Prayers desperately needed
In case you haven’t heard, there is a standoff in Nevada between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and a rancher by the name of Cliven Bundy. Mr. Bundy is a rancher, as was his father, and his...
View Article5 Things To Do When You’re Unemployed
Unemployment can be the pits. Long-term unemployment can feel like a soul-sucking hell from which there seems to be no end. It just so happens that I am an veteran at this, so I write from experience....
View ArticleThe heart of a traditionalist
In the Catholic blogosphere, there are a number of labels: traditionalist, orthodox, charismatic, rad-trad, liberal, and conservative being among them. One of the newest and most vibrant of these...
View ArticleTo walk a mile in your shoes
WARNING: This post contains SPOILERS for The 2nd Season of The Walking Dead. If you’re anything like me, you are pretty far behind on watching TV and movies. Consider yourself, my fellow sub-rock...
View ArticleO Magnum Mysterium
A Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. The choir of Westminster Cathedral sing Morten Lauridsen’s stunningly beautiful setting of O Magnum Mysterium during Midnight Mass 2009. O magnum...
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