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).
Happy New Year 2020!
Gloria in excelsis Deo per omnia saecula saeculorum! Happy New Year to all of you and may God bless each and all! Happy 2020 and 2020s!
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…
Back Home For Christmas!
Back home for Christmas break! Thank God forreal for that! The Bishop visited my parish for the vigil last night, and I served. Plus it was a great opportunity to rep NashVocations, our diocese’s vocations office.
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…
Happy Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception! Hail Our Spotless Lady!
From the Collect (opening prayer) of today’s Mass: “O God, who by the Immaculate Conception of he 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…
The Christ is Coming. Make His pathways straight. Start with your heart. #Advent
Original image: Ethiopian icon of the Annunciation. Found here. Presumed in Public Domain.