Chalices for Days
Today I will share with you all the second fun thing we got to do during J-Term. In the my post yesterday I talked about what my seminary’s J-Term is and shared with you pictures of all the cool relics I got to see. Now I want to share pictures of another great thing my…
Relics on Relics on Relics on . . .
I don’t know if other seminaries out there do something similar to mine, but at my seminary (Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology ran by the Benedictine Monks at Saint Meinrad Archabbey) we have this part of the year called “J-Term,” which covers most of January (hence “J”-Term), and it starts when we come…
That Time St. John Paul II Came to Harlem
This was was a landmark moment in Black history because Black Catholic history is Black history. The following is from Pope St. John Paul’s address to African Americans in Harlem a year after he was elected to the papacy. Pope St. John Paul visited New York during his first papal trip to America back in…
Black Jesus Sermon On The Mount Art Piece
Been back at seminary this week. During the break I found this book with a lovely Black depiction of Jesus at my local Catholic bookstore (above). Reminds me of Ethiopian Christian art. Here’s the artist as well (below).
Merry Christmas 2019 from BLACKCATHOLIC!
15 When the angels had gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds began saying to one another, “Let us go straight to Bethlehem then, and see this thing that has happened which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 So they came in a hurry and found their way to Mary and Joseph, and the baby as He…
Sea of Christmas Flowers
There was a sea of poinsettias sitting on the table ready to go up to decorate the church today.
Christmas Party After Party
The past week was filled with a lot of Christmas gatherings of seminarians, vocation staff, and the bishop. One of them was the annual V.I.P (Vocations In Progress) Dinner organized by the Serra Club of Nashville. Every year the dinner mostly celebrates the seminarians in formation and the postulates/novices/first vows of the Nashville Dominican Sisters…
From the Preface on the Immaculate Conception
“For you preserved the Most Blessed Virgin Maryfrom all stain of original sin,so that in her, endowed with the rich fullness of your grace,you might prepare a worthy Mother for your Sonand signify the beginning of the Church,his beautiful Bride without spot or wrinkle. She, the most pure Virgin, was to bring forth a Son,the…