What is community, really?

Lately, I’ve been involved in a number of ongoing efforts and conversations regarding community. Basically, we’ve been trying to get at the crux of what community really is and how to live it, and that’s got me yearning to dig deeper into the subject. We hear the word “community” all Read more

A fortnight of apparitions

  With the Fortnight for Freedom initiated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops upon us, I’d like to share with you a bit of inspiration that I discovered. It’s a reflection written by Schoenstatt Father Nicolas Schwizer about being the light of the world. One line in particular Read more

Time off for better behavior

  Prisoners who show exceptional rehabilitation progress during their internment are sometimes given “time off for good behavior,” or a reduction in their prison term as a reward for improvement. Well, I don’t by any means feel imprisoned, but I am in need of some time off in order to Read more

What a contrast!

Sometimes contrasts seem to just jump out and hit you right between the eyes. Well, I’m still smarting from the blow I received when I ran across the two articles below. The first is a Media Research Center piece on the growing and dangerous trend of “self-marriage.” I know, it Read more

Friday Digest

Happy Friday! Today I’ve compiled a number of items of interest into a digest of sorts. Some are things of which we all should be aware, and some are purely for our spiritual enrichment. Here’s a heads up from Catholic News Agency regarding the Defense of Marriage Act, which recently Read more

Viral marriage proposal

Some things are just too good not to pass on… Below is the YouTube clip of Isaac Lamb’s unique proposal to his girlfriend, Amy Frankel. Lamb, of Portland, OR, enlisted the help of more than sixty of his friends to create this video gone viral. Below you’ll also find the Read more

Items of interest

Happy Mond….errr…Tuesday morning! Below is the link to a LifeSiteNews article to which I’d like to draw your attention. Remember the old Marvel comics we enjoyed as kids? Well, marvel no more.The once child-friendly series has become one that we’d like to steer our kids away from. Now Marvel is using Read more