Today’s notes are on truth and integrity and the confidence we should question.
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Today’s notes are on truth and integrity and the confidence we should question.
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Today’s notes are on truth and forgiveness.
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Today’s notes are on Lazarus and the rich man, on heaven and hell.
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Today’s notes are on the compassion we owe Christ and the compassion we owe each other.
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Today’s notes are on wealth, inequality, examples to follow, and choices to make.
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Today’s notes are on the extent of the love God expects us of us and the beams on our eyes.
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A homily for this Sunday on the light that still exists, that has always existed, that by grace we may see sometimes in a wicked world.
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Preached at the funeral of a great man today. A faithful Anglo-Catholic priest quietly comes home to the Catholic Church; at the end he offered everything to God in the pews of the parish just down the road. So many beautiful sacrifices are simply hidden.
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Today’s notes are on Christ’s moral standards and why the Church remembers what you say.
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Today’s notes are on rival notions of freedom and prayer, on the impossibility of freedom without the good.
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Today’s notes are on the sign and confrontation of truth.
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More and more I’m convinced that what the devil spends most of his energy on is in simply trying to stop people from praying. That’s why prayer is indeed a secret of the kingdom. Today’s notes.
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“But we Catholics apparently entertain hopes of winning a glorious victory without any battle—and to top it all, we expect to do this after fighting for the enemy and helping him win his victory! Can anyone really believe such a thing possible?”
-Franz Jägerstätter
There is a difference between being a jerk and holy stubbornness. We have enough of the former; we need more of the latter. Today’s notes.
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Today’s homily is on the gift of conscience, on our original story, and the word of God we need.
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Today’s notes are about Winnie-the-Pooh and Lent. The silly old bear can teach us, I believe.
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Today’s notes on the immediate decisions of Lent.
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Today I write about Ash Wednesday and about a woman worth looking up to.
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Today’s notes on where the battle begins—within.
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Today’s notes on the popularity of Stoicism and then another wisdom, a better wisdom.
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Today’s homily is on the judgement and the deeper rebellion.
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My final post on the idea of the parish. My plea is that parish is worth remembering, cherishing, supporting. It’s good to belong to a parish. I believe it’s where genuine renewal can happen. open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
We do suffer a managerialism problem in the Church today. Catholics chasing Protestant ministry models won’t work. Today’s post on the parish is on the problem with some of our current Churchspeak.
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Today’s post is on one of the bigger problems facing contemporary Catholics, and that’s drive-thru Catholicism.
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Today’s post on the parish is on the spirituality of eating and why we’re always tempted to treat the parish like a Taco Bell.
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Continuing my series on the spiritual idea of the parish. This week we’ll look at some of the challenges facing the parish, mostly about how we think about the parish. Today’s post is an introduction to what follows, a plea for a little Pentecost.
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A homily for the day on being salt and light.
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Today I just sketch out other areas related to the idea of the parish. Next week I look at problems facing the parish. At least, hopefully, I’ve shown by now that talking about the parish requires deeper conversation than anecdotes about bad preaching and liturgies.
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Today on my series on the spiritual idea of the parish I talk about the parish as a community of memory. Aside from catechetics or apologetics with its many programs, the parish itself ritually remembers. In fact, it’s a better sort of remembering.
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Today’s Substack post on the spiritual idea of the parish is on how the parish is a community of virtue. Not an option or an enclave or an affinity group, it’s deeper than that. It’s morally formative rather than performative.
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