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…

Saint

Hours

I was in the back seat of a car on a 8 hour drive to a mission trip in Appalachia. I pulled out my copy of Christian Prayer, and my new friend asked me, “Why did you start praying the Liturgy of the Hours?”

”Because daily Mass isn’t enough,” I responded.

Charlie

I’ll avoid the political or any other commentary here. Just pray for Charlie, his parents, all children, all those who our society feels have no worth, and our leaders.

Reading List

One thing I hope to do on a periodic basis (weekly, maybe?) is post a book review, focused mainly on how it has affected my life and what I learned from it going forward. I’m going to use the term “book” to refer also to Church documents, like papal encyclicals. Below is a list of books I hope to write…

Beginning

So, here it goes.

My new project that will likely end up like all of my others: a good idea that died due to my inability to follow through. What makes this time different, though, is that I truly care about the subject matter about which I plan to write. It will be part therapy, part…