Armor

For years, I have been telling my brother priests: The best protection against the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is…

…a fiddleback chasuble. Obviously, our Holy Father agrees…

Bad: Duke winning the national championship.

Good: Jason Campbell replaced by Donovan McNabb…

…According to the Old Covenant, a levite was to blow a trumpet from the top of the Temple wall to call the people to a holy feast.

The trumpet of the New Covenant is the sermon of St. Peter, also delivered at the Temple wall:

God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified. –Acts 2:36