Big Announcement: I Am Becoming A Candidate for Holy Orders This Week! Things Are About to Get Real.
Christ has Ascended into Heaven! Peace be with you! I have an important announcement to share with you today concerning my path to the priesthood. This week, on Wednesday May 27 at 11:00am on the feast day of St. Augustine of Canterbury (in the Ordinary Form calendar), in a small ceremony during a daily Mass,…
Liturgy Livestreams for the Rest of May (5/23-5/31)
All event/times central and subject to change. All taking place at a new location, my home parish. 5/23 (Saturday) 5:00pm Vigil Mass 5/24 (Ascension Sunday) 9:00am Mass 5/26 (Tuesday) 10:30am Morning Prayer 12:10pm Mass 4:00 Evening Prayer 5/29 (Friday) 12:10pm Mass 5/30 (Saturday) 5:00pm Vigil 5/31 (Pentecost Sunday) 9:00am Mass
Update on Livestreaming of Liturgies
Now that I am back home and staying at my actual house I am no longer just a walk downstairs to a chapel where daily Mass and Adoration takes place. Plus, I am no longer in my room in the seminary; I am back at my room at home which is not set up the…
It Was Time to Go – Finally Left for the Summer and Back Home!
After months of quarantine at the seminary, I finally got the chance to pack up my things and head back home to Nashville. Our vocation director had been keeping us at the school for own safety since the pandemic business blew up in mid-March. As I reported some time back, mid-March is also when the…
I Graduated! Philosophy Studies Completed!
I wanted to wait till I finished that last paper before I posted this up. This past Saturday we had our “graduation ceremony” at the seminary in our on-campus pub/restaurant we had open only for those of us remaining in the quarantined cloister we have going on here, and, as you can see, I dressed…
134th Anniversary of Ven. Augustus Tolton’s Ordination as a Priest!
I’ve been so wrapped up in work today, but I can’t let this day go by on my apostolate without acknowledging this. In this month which contains the anniversary of his birth on April 1, today, April 24, is the 134th anniversary of Ven. Augustus Tolton’s spiritual birth as a priest of Jesus Christ for…
REPOST: Prod. By BLACKCATHOLIC – 4: “God is Dead: For the Good Fridays and Holy Saturdays of Our Lives” (For Laudare)
Good to repost this for today: Here’s an article I wrote for Laudare in 2017 that fits the occasion of Holy Saturday: “God is Dead: For the Good Fridays and Holy Saturdays of Our Lives” Here are some excerpts: “When evil and suffering has taken out all the good in the world in an onslaught of pain,…
Holy Saturday
Christ is dead. Original picture: Ethiopian icon of the entombment of Christ. Presumably in the Public Domain. Found here.
