This Upcoming Week and Month – BLACKCATHOLIC and Ven. Tolton
During upcoming week Wednesday, April 1 will come upon us and this date is important for this apostolate for two reasons. 1. It will be the 2nd year anniversary since I first launched BLACKCATHOLIC on Easter Day 2018. 2. 166th anniversary of Venerable Fr. Tolton’s birth, who is one of the patrons of my apostolate.…
Some Great Incarnation and Reconciliation Theology from St. Leo the Great for the Annunciation
While praying the Liturgy of the Hours today and making my way through the Office of Reading I noticed that the Church selected a great Christina writing piece for the second reading. She chose to draw from from a letter by Pope St. Leo the Great (400-461), who was pope from 440-461. I was struck…
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…
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…
Sub Tuum Praesidium! – One of the oldest prayers to our Blessed Mother
Did you know this is one of the oldest prayers to our Blessed Mother? The oldest known version of this prayer is found on an Egyptian papyrus from the 3rd century for Coptic liturgy. A partial indulgence for granted for saying this prayer, yall. So take a brief second right now to knock out some…