Catholicism Through a Colored Lens
Guess where I am y’all! My diocese sponsored three of us seminarians to come up for the entire 5-day National Eucharistic Revival here in Indianapolis! We will enjoy Masses, workshops, big presentations in morning and evening with major Catholic heavy-hitters, adoration, a Eucharistic procession, and whatever the revival will throw at us. As a plus,…
“You are Peter, and upon this Rock I will build My Church” 9 years ago this day I “crossed the Tiber” and converted to the Catholic Church to be in union with Rome. This year I literally crossed the Tiber River and saw the universal seat of unity upon which Christ built His Church in…
Last week I began part 1 of my summer assignment on a program called the Rome Experience. This program involves traveling to Florence, Bracciano, and Rome, Italy/Vatican to see the beauty, history, and inner life and workings of the heart of the Church. The past week we were in Florence and saw many of the…
After two months of Spanish immersion in San Antonio at the Mexican American College I have returned back home to my beloved Tennessee. Texas, it was good meeting you for the first time, but Tennessee (and my other seminarian’s obligations) was calling me back home. Me and one other Nashville seminarian left on Friday 4:00am…
Last week we made another visit here in San Antonio to another church for Sunday mass. This time we made a trip to the seat of the archdiocese, the San Fernando cathedral right in the heart of downtown San Antonio. And this time we checked out the regular English Mass at 10:00 a.m for the…
A couple weeks ago on the Fourth of July the Nashville guys and I visited another church here in San Antonio while on our summer of Spanish immersion stationed here at the Mexican American Catholic College. On the Fourth we visited another one of the historical Spanish missions of San Antonio. We visited Mission Concepción…
Another Sunday, another trip to a local church for Sunday Mass while down here in San Antonio for Spanish Immersion at the Mexican American Catholic College (or should I say Divine Liturgy for the one we checked out last Sunday). This time me and the other Nashville guys went to Three Hierarchs Byzantine Melkite Catholic…
A couple of weeks ago me and the other Nashville seminarians who were down here in San Antonio and are living at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) visited the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Little Flower in town for Sunday Mass in Spanish. I shared pictures of our visit in a post…
As you know from my last post, I am currently in San Antonio staying at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) for two months as part of the second part of my summer assignment, Spanish immersion. There are four in total of us Nashville seminarians here, and we have made it a part of our…
On Sunday I arrived in San Antonio, TX at the Mexican American Catholic College (MACC) for part 2 of my summer assignment: Spanish Immersion for two months (June-July) in which I will improve my Español in order to minister more effectively to the Hispanic community in my diocese as a priest someday. If you live…