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…
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…
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…
National Black Catholic History Month Novena Heads Up!
Big news! We have welcomed in October the past few days, but that only means that we are only one more month away from National Black Catholic History Month in November! And you know my apostolate with celebrate. So, consider this is a heads up. And leading into NBCHM, later this month you can begin…
A Black Catholic Parish’s Feast Day – St. Vincent de Paul’s in My Home Town
Happy Feast Day to the only surviving historically Black Catholic parish in my home diocese of Nashville, St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church! Today is the feast day of 17th century priest, St. Vincent de Paul, which the universal Church celebrates as a memorial, but for St. Vincent’s it’s a full-on solemnity. Check out these…
Happy Glorious Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross!
Since it was only through the Cross Christ brought us victory, it is only through the same Cross we will find any true victory in this life or the life to come. The many “victories” of this world are really losses while the once and for all “defeat” of Jesus on the Cross is the…
Part 3: How To Keep the Lord’s Day No Matter What – Now That the Sun Has Returned: Reflection Series on The Lord’s Day for A Church (Still) Recovering From the Pandemic
This is Part 3 of a three-part reflection series on the importance and value of Sunday as the Lord’s Day and Sunday worship as the Church continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Part 2 was published last Sunday, and Part 1 was published the week before. This series is being featured on both BLACKCATHOLIC…