I’ve been a writer and scribbler since forever. In high school, I wrote a column for the school paper called “Teetering on the Brink”. Later, I was an English major and cranked out papers like there was no tomorrow. After that, I became a Catholic and the Holy Spirit, like, instantly started driving me to …
If you haven’t seen it by now, there’s a great Nike commercial going around featuring Madonna Buder, nicknamed the “Iron Nun”. Check it out: In typical Nike fashion, the video is well executed and inspirational, but I love that it features an athlete that isn’t one of the typical, beautiful, young, we-already-know-how-good-they-are, Nike athletes. No, …
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A re-make of the 1959 classic, Ben-Hur tells the epic tale of Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a wealthy Jew, and his adopted brother Messala Severus (Toby Kebbell), a Roman. Eight years prior to the Crucifixion of Jesus, the latter brother, feeling he needs to prove himself, leaves their home in Jerusalem and joins the Roman …
The title of this post should read more like the beginning of a corny joke. Three Catholic men and a Protestant cowboy go camping… This last weekend, me and 3 good friends ventured out into the wilderness for some good old fashion wife & kid-free fun. My wife is a pro-life advocate and public speaker. …
We don’t have any written record of anything the St. Joseph said. Sure, there have been visions of St. Joseph to certain seers over the past few millennia, but those are private revelations and the faithful do not have to believe them. I like to think that Joe was a pretty normal guy, set apart …
In Luke 1, Gabriel told Mary to call her son Jesus, which means “God saves”. Throughout the Bible, we are also told of Jesus’ many other names, along with their meanings. Here are a few. 1. The Word John 1 gives us this profound name of Jesus. John explains that from the beginning of …
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Pope St. John Paul II knew what he was about when he said that the Church must “breathe with both lungs”, those “lungs” being the Eastern Rites and Roman Rites (y’all have more than one too, y’know). The Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church are in full communion with Rome, but our liturgical and theological …
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After encouragement from a friend and a conversation with the local prison chaplain, I signed up to help with a Residents Encounter Christ (REC) retreat. Created by Bishop Paul Dudley, the REC program is based on TEC retreats and has been serving the spiritual needs of the prison inmates incarcerated in eastern South Dakota since …
I went on a Prison Retreat, and what I saw changed my life Read More »
Are you unhappy with the selection in the emoji keyboard on your phone? Need something to capture those Catholic moments better? You gotta check out the Catholic Emoji app by Little Flower Strategies. For your daily/weekly Rosary When you just need to share Jesus, literally For Mother Theresa’s canonization During Lent …
