Can The Eucharist Make You Sick? – “Coronavirus and the Catholic Church” [Catholic Answers]
I recently found a Catholic Answers Focus podcast episode really helpful with dealing with the questions we all had earlier in this pandemic particularly before all the Churches got shut down. This episode was released on 3/11, so this was right before. These questions dealt with the Eucharist and the possible transmission of disease and…
An Brief Observation on Sudden Onset COVID19 Religiosity
The following is actually from a post I made on my personal Facebook. It was in response to a tweet which made rounds around FB as well. My thoughts below were also influenced by some of my FB friends posting statuses about how they saw everybody (at least their friends) “getting all religious” all of…
Happy Solemnity of St. Joseph, Spouse of The Blessed Virgin Mary!
Even during this tough time we should still celebrate the Most Holy Spouse of Mary, St. Joseph who is one of the patrons of the BLACKCATHOLIC apostolate! From today’s Mass preface: “For this just man was given by youas spouse to the Virgin Mother of Godand set as a wise and faithful servantin charge of…
A Word for Our Current Moment
So much stuff going on and so many cancellations even of holy activities. Let us continue to pray for each other and the world as we go through this tough time with this global pandemic. We will make it through this by God’s grace one way or the other, and He will send us an…
A Good Quote for Lent
I’ve been thinking about this quote from Servant of God Sr. Thea Bowman the past few days, and I think this is great to keep in mind during this time of Lent when we are tempted to do try to do a lot to get holy. More often than not holiness is just doing the…
Sub Tuum Praesidium! – One of the oldest prayers to our Blessed Mother
Did you know this is one of the oldest prayers to our Blessed Mother? The oldest known version of this prayer is found on an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century for Coptic liturgy. A partial indulgence for granted for saying this prayer, yall. So take a brief second right now to knock out some…
Blessing of Throats at the Seminary
Happy feast day of St. Blaise! Today we had the blessing of the throats after Mass. Did you get your throat blessed today? St. Blaise pray for us! Painting of St. Blaise presumably in Public Domain.
Presentation of the Lord – Pics from the Seminary
We celebrated the Presentation of the Lord yesterday with the blessing of candles and procession before Mass. Here are some pics from it. Most of the pics below are not my own but were used with permission of Corey Bruns, a fellow seminarian who is studying with me at St. Meinrad for the Diocese of…
Happy Black History Month 2020 from BLACKCATHOLIC!
Above image remixed from original image found at here.