The other day, beads of sweat dripped from my elbow when I finished my morning run. The sheer joy of it moved me to compose this little rhapsody: Come, long hot Washington summer! Come and enfold your people in your torrid embrace. We will take every sweaty minute of your grimy kiss. We hardly know [...]
Archive for May, 2010
little trinities
Posted in Homilies, Local Color, tagged Father, heat, Holy Spirit, Human Nature, humidity, image, Proverbs 8, Psalm 8, sin, son, summer, Sunday, Trinity, Washington, wisdom on May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Tough
Posted in Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Morals/Decision-Making, Sports, tagged Andy Roddick, basketball, birth, child, Final, Frodo, Lord of the Rings, Mens Championship, mother, Mount Doom, NBA, Phoenix Suns, playoffs, Ring of Power, Roger Federer, Steve Nash, Wimbledon on May 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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Sweet, Doleful Fog Horns
Posted in Local Color, Priesthood, tagged Ben White, bus, container, ferry, fog, harbor, Holy Mass, routes, ships, St Peters, Staten Island on May 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
All of Staten Island’s bus routes originate at the St. George Ferry Terminal. Borough Hall is across the street. My brother lives up the hill. With the windows of his apartment open to the cool May air, the fog horns of the container ships sound through the quiet night. The captains of industry who developed [...]
Emitte Spiritum + non-Shakespeare
Posted in Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Homilies, Prayer, Saints, tagged animals, boring, Croesinck Hours, flowers, Folger, George Bernard Shaw, Holy Spirit, James Pierpont Morgan Library, juvenile, Last Judgment, Mrs. Warren's Profession, nature, Pentecost, plants, play, rain, resurrection, second coming, Shakespeare Theater Company, spring on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
St. Thomas Aquinas gave an excellent Pentecost homily. Click here. Here is a less worthy attempt… (But shorter at least!) Come, Holy Spirit! On our dryness pour your dew. We live by holding fast to the doctrines of our Catholic faith. At the same time, we also see visible signs of the mysteries we believe [...]
Altars, Pagan and Christian
Posted in Books, Magazines, Movies, Music, etc., Homilies, Priesthood, Sports, tagged altar, Ascension, Athens, basketball, chalice, cleanse, cleansing, Folger, Hamlet, High Priest, Holy Communion, Holy Mass, LeBron James, Library, Lord Jesus Christ, Missal, NBA, pagan, playoffs, religion, sacrifice, St Paul, theater, William Shakespeare, worship on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
First of all, let me say this: To see LeBron get sat-down was…SWEET! …At Holy Mass, after Communion, when the deacon or priest cleanses the chalice, he says this prayer quietly to himself: Quod ore sumpsimus, Domine, pura mente capiamus: et de munera temporali fiat nobis remedium sempiternum. The translation of this Latin sentence which [...]
Spring Bests Have Arrived
Posted in Local Color, Old Bests Lists, tagged blizzard, cheese, macaroni, patience, Risk, snow, Washington, weather, winter on May 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Whenever I can, I try to compose little lists of the best things in the world. It will take me a long time to get through them all. Fortunately, I am still young. I have posted a new list under the Bests tab above. The following old list of ‘blizzard bests’ is retired from the [...]
Jerusalem Council, Maundy Mandate
Posted in Holy Land, Homilies, tagged Apostles, circumcision, Council, first, Jerusalem, Lord Jesus Christ, mandate, Moses, New Testament, Old Testament, Sacred Tradition, Scripture on May 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Holy Spirit, who the Father will send in My name, will teach you everything. (John 14:26) These are the words of our Lord Jesus to the Apostles at the Last Supper. He was explaining to them what would happen after He ascended into heaven. That was the beginning of the Catholic Church. The Lord [...]
Southwest Corner
Posted in Local Color, Priesthood, tagged Church, door, evangelization, Holy Name, knock, neighborhood, streets, Washington on May 7, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Remember when Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines? Well, this afternoon my Evangelization Team and I reached the southwest corner of my little city parish. Every Friday afternoon, we knock on doors and invite people to church. We take the parish block by block. It felt great to reach one of the corners of our territory. [...]
Old Made New
Posted in Homilies, tagged Blessed Virgin Mary, death, electrical, Holy Name, Jim Zorn, LeBron James, Lord Jesus Christ, Mel Gibson, old, Passion of the Christ, Revelation, St John, tired, wiring on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Behold, I make all things new.” (Revelation 21:5) “Behold, I make all things new.” This is what the One who sat on the throne in heaven said, according to the vision of St. John. Christ our King speaks to us from His throne of victory. He says to us: My children, you have grown old. [...]
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