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…
Seminary Update: More Years Behind Than Ahead of Me!
Seminary Update: And with that last final (late, if I’m honest lol) paper turned in this morning the Fall semester is done for me, and I am now 2.5 years away from priestly ordination (God willing) in terms of semesters left! 1.5 years away from deacon ordination, which is closer. This is an important step…
Hail Mary
“O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your Son, grant, we pray, that, as you preserved her from every stain by virtue of the Death of your Son, which you foresaw, so, through her intercession, we, too, may be cleansed and admitted to your presence. Through…
Lady, Full and Overflowing With Grace – The Immaculate One!
“Blessed Lady, sky and stars, earth and rivers, day and night—everything that is subject to the power or use of man—rejoice that through you they are in some sense restored to their lost beauty and are endowed with inexpressible new grace. All creatures were dead, as it were, useless for men or for the praise…
Happy Solemnity of Christ the King!
Blessed is the Kingdom of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit now and forever unto the ages of ages! And blessed by Jesus Christ, King and Lord of the Universe and All Creation on the Solemnity of Christ the King! Pilate said to Jesus, “Are you the King of the…
Black Catholic History Timeline – Black History Month 2021
Here’s a good timeline of Black Catholics throughout US history, a great part of Black history. Composed by Fr. Cyprian Davis, OSB. Some highlights: 1565-1899: St. Augustine, FloridaBlacks, both slave and free, help to found this oldest town in the United States. In 1693 Spain offers freedom in Florida to slaves who convert to Catholicism.” 1829:…
Servant of God Thea Bowman Info Graphic – Black Catholic History Month 2021
This is a great little info graphic I found on FB to learn more about Servant of God Thea Bowman. I have covered her on my site before. Check out my page about Bowman and learn even more! Image: Credit to original creator. Fair Use
Pray For These New Candidates for Holy Orders!
This past Thursday we had a very important and awesome development in the journeys of some of the seminarians here towards the priesthood. A good number of guys were admitted to Candidacy! Though he is still not a cleric, these man take on a canonical status, as Candidacy is mentioned in the Code of Canon…
Tonight Black Catholics and I Come Together to Talk On Black Saints and Representation. Also “Black Version of Catholicism?”
Several weeks ago I participated in a live stream discussion entitled “Is There A Black Version of Catholicism?” hosted by David L. Gray and the Traditional Black Catholic Forum Facebook group. In addition to the main question that gave our discussion its title and direction, we also talked about many aspects of Black Catholic faith,…
Black Catholic Saint Feast Day: St. Martin de Porres (Nov 3) – Black Catholic History Month 2021
The Church celebrates a prominent figure in Black Catholic history today – St. Martin de Porres! If you know his story and if you know about the story of Black people across the Americas, then you would also know how so much of his life parallels the Black experience in the history of not just…