Unrequited

I have a friend whom one could describe as being unlucky in love. I think I see the reasons for it; I’ve mentioned them to her before, but it tends to fall on deaf ears, usually because I fall into the same traps.

Touché.

Father

One of the most inexplicable characteristics of God is His unending mercy. Humans, in our frailty and sinfulness, find it hard to fathom that any person can be so infinitely generous, so infinitely merciful. Indeed, we don’t have the capacity to be so.

Corpus

Today is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. It is this (liturgical) weekend 2 years ago that I, for the first time in roughly 15 years, returned fully to the Church through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and in that regard it is the anniversary of a watershed moment in my life.

Tired

I have a nail in my driver’s side rear tire.

I need a new tire (two, really), but for the moment I’m relying on a temporary fix, which really just means I’m filling it up at Wawa (free air!) every time the TPMS light comes on. I’ll get it plugged when I have the time, but even that will…

Loser

I recently started a rewatch of the Denis Leary firefighter series Rescue Me on Hulu. In one episode in season 3, one of the characters, Lt. Ken “Lou” Shea, has fallen on the hardest of times and, full of equal parts despair and vodka, decides to take his own life. He stumbles onto some train tracks, planning to use…

Fresh

I just completed the migration of my blog over here to Medium. I plan on using this platform from here on out for a couple reasons.

First, I find the format a bit more visually appealing. I am no graphic designer, but I appreciate aesthetics as much as the next person.

Memory

I just returned home from a week in the mountains, visiting family for the Fourth of July holiday. It was incredibly relaxing, and the cooler temperatures were a welcome respite from the muggy heat we’ve been afflicted with so far here at home. I was fortunate to spend some good quality time with my grandmother…

Reboot

Be on the lookout for more posts from me in the coming days. Lots of things to reflect on and be thankful for — there’s no way I can keep it all in.

Some things that are coming —

• God the Father of Mercy
• Strength and Masculinity

Saint

Mortification

St. Gregory the Great recounts a story about St. Benedict in his Life and Miracles of St. Benedict regarding Benedict’s being besieged with lustful thoughts while in seclusion. Determined to defeat them, he cast himself, naked, into a thorn bush and rolled around until his pleasure had turned to pain.