My Continued Access to Mass and Your Intentions
I made this post on my BLACKCATHOLIC apostolate FB page earlier today and I want to extend here as well: “I wanted to let you all know that because I have advised by my vocation director and bishop to remain at my seminary for at least the next few weeks I along with the seminarians…
Can The Eucharist Make You Sick? – “Coronavirus and the Catholic Church” [Catholic Answers]
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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…
Personal Update – Seminary Spring Semester Cancelled Due to Epidemic
In case you guys were wondering about how the virus is affecting my formation and the formation of seminarians across the country this is one example. I can let you guys know now that yesterday my seminary officially cancelled the rest of semester for us. Guys have been packing up and going home and this…
A Small Thing to Laugh At For Now . . .
Here’s a meme I made for a small thing to laugh at for these times.
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…
Update on Baby Julian
I received an update about Baby Julian from Father: “He has improved. Probably has cerebral palsy from the damage caused by lack of oxygen and might be blind. They’re hoping he can get off ventilator so they can bring him home. Also hoping he can eat on his own without a feeding tube.” Father is…