A Chance Encounter
Yesterday during a break in the part of our program with interfaith chaplains, I met a Black Protestant military chaplain of who told me I was the first African American dude studying for the Catholic priesthood he’s ever met! Glad God arranged things to let this encounter happen.I don’t mind being a unicorn for the…
The Mission – ALL 2022
Saw this on social media. So powerful I became Catholic just to do it, yall. This is living the Gospel God intended for His Church: prayerfully invested and active in Eucharistic and sacramental communion ordered towards daily conversion of life. See this not as a checklist but rather some of the essential actions involved in…
A Small Word For the Brewing “Liturgy Wars” – There’s People To Love On the “Other Side”
I haven’t put much of my viewpoint visible out there on social media or my site during the two revving ups last year (July 16’s Motu Proprio and last month’s Responsa Ad Dubia) of the liturgical controversies that were no doubt already present in the Church beforehand. Though, if you look close enough to the…
Happy New Year 2022!
Just wishing you all a Happy New Year 2022 from BLACKCATHOLIC! Started the year off the best way I know how – with that Holy Mass for Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God, the celebration the Church has every Jan. 1. God bless you each and every day of the year. Be thankful to…
The World Has Left Us and All We Have is Jesus Now, So Keep Christmas Going!
This is what we’ve waited all Advent for! Keep Christmas going, y’all! As Catholics we know that Christmas is not just one day that came and went on Dec. 25. Christmas is a whole season in itself and it only just got started! We have only just begun our contemplation of how the Son of…
His Birth, Our Cross: Why Martyrs’ Blood Right After Christmas Day? (Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC #6 – For Laudare)
Prod. by BLACKCATHOLIC series synopsis: I write for other Catholic platforms too. When I have articles published elsewhere I will have some of them previewed here and will provide a link to the full article on the original site of the post. Check out more posts from of this article-series here. The following is a January 2018…
The Christmas in You: A Christmastide Reflection (Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC #5 – For Laudare)
Prod. by BLACKCATHOLIC series synopsis: I write for other Catholic platforms too. When I have articles published elsewhere I will have some of them previewed here and will provide a link to the full article on the original site of the post. Check out more posts from of this article-series here. The following is a 2016 Christmas…
“For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.”
Merry Christmas from BLACKCATHOLIC!
Week 1 Advent candles everywhere right now
BLACKCATHOLIC Meme hot of the presses. This candle need some milk.
How It Started. How It’s Going: Church in My Diocese Puts Steeple and Cross Back Up After 2020 Nashville Tornado
Last year in March, just before Coronavirus shut everything down in the nation and around the world, tornados ripped through Tennessee, in particular middle of the state. I was away at seminary when one came down in north Nashville, my home town, and devastated parts of the Germantown neighborhood where a church that I have…