Passiontide
Passiontide is the last two weeks of Lent. Did your parish start to cover its statues this past week?
1 Year of Catholicism Through A Colored Lens! First Annum of BLACKCATHOLIC!
Today is an important day for BLACKCATHOLIC! It is the 1st year anniversary of the official launching of my apostolate! I It was April 1, Easter Day when I launched it all. God has been good and has blessed my mission with help from others along the way (especially from Ryan Scheel head of uCatholic)! Because…
Happy Feast of the Annunciation!
Mary said YES! and the Word has been made flesh! 9 months from today we will have a Holy Baby!
Happy Feast of St. Joseph, Spouse of the Virgin Mary!
He is one of the patrons for BLACKCATHOLIC, and my personal patron when I came into the Church! St. Joseph pray for us! Original St. Joseph image, presumably in public domain. Source.
Happy Black History Month from BLACKCATHOLIC!
Happy Black History Month from BLACKCATHOLIC! All-month celebration plans for the apostolate coming later today. Picture: June 21, 1964, Fr. Theodore Martin Hesburgh, CSC with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., singing “We Shall Overcome.” Original picture used under CC BY-SA 4.0 Original picture (The Smithsonian and National Portrait Gallery) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Hesburgh https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode
Octave for Christian Unity 2019
Yesterday began what is called the Octave of Christian Unity – the set of eight days in which the Church offers up prayers with Jesus’ prayer that we “might all be one.” It runs from January 18-25, so it’s not too late to jump on it (I remembered and jumped on it today, in fact).…
Happy Epiphany! Blessed Chalk!
Father did the traditional blessings of chalk today for Epiphany! I got mine during the mad dash to get one! Did your priest do one of these this morning? The very top part is what you write on the door posts. The 20 + 19 mean the current year and CMB can be either…