Heaven and Hell part I of II
The Four Last Things from a Cemetary. https://vimeo.com/178684559
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15° Sunday After Pentecost
Who caused the crisis in the Church? I did. "I hereby commit to staying engaged with the suffering of the world, as long as I am alive and as much as I am able. I commit to this because on the cross no tear is cried in vain, no ache in the heart is unfruitful. If I will gaze, wide-eyed, at the suffering of the world AND lean in, I will begin to learn what it is to be human, and I will see Jesus. And there is no other way of being a Christian for me anymore. None whatsoever. If I don't suffer with/for the world I might as [...]
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08, 2016
A World That Runs on Sacrifice
We Christians tend to see the crucifixion as a horrible event, and the resurrection as that which rectified everything. This is actually true. It is totally true, in fact. But there’s a mysterious line in Revelation that seems to say that something of the crucifixion precedes even creation itself. Revelation 13:8 speaks of Jesus Christ as "the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the world." There are many translations but I think this is the best translation considering the Greek ἀρνίου τοῦ ἐσφαγμένου ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου, translated by St. Jerome as agni qui occisus est ab origine mundi. What does it mean that the Lamb was [...]
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14° Sunday After Pentecost
Why do Christians keep the 10 Commandments but not the kosher laws of Leviticus? What do the Irish have to do with the Galatians of Turkey? This and more on today's podcast.
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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Sorry for the repost, but I'm about to start traveling.
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Women’s Swimsuits
Just in time for the Olympics, I have some good things to say about the clothing of female athletes below, but you'll have to wait for that. Many of you know the historical roots of the bikini: French engineer Louis Réard worked in his mother's lingerie shop in the 1940s. There, he designed and got the word "bikini" from the name of the first post-bellum atomic-bomb site, Bikini Atoll, for obvious reasons. He tried to find a French model to first debut his invention in 1946, but he could not find one. He ultimately had to hire a stripper. It took a while for the bikini to catch on in the United States. As [...]
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12° Sunday After Pentecost
The Good Samaritan through the eyes of some old Church Fathers and a new saint's aphorism: "You did it to Me."
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Why the Birth of Jesus Rocked the World
https://youtu.be/uFzT0r5e0WE
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11th Sunday After Pentecost
How and Why does God answer our prayers? (Intro/Outro is the Lorica of St. Patrick by the Benedictines of Mary, Gower, Missouri.)
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07, 2016
Capitalizing “He” for Jesus
When I first read “Lord of the Rings” in high school, I skipped over all the elf and orc songs. I had no intention of ever learning elvish like a total weirdo, so I thought it wasn’t vital to the plotline. A few years later in University, I was doing my undergraduate at Boston College, and Dr. Peter Kreeft pointed out something I had never realized: For Tolkien, the elvish language was a Tolkienesque way of speaking in tongues. It turns out the Elf and Orc songs are among the most important parts of the entire book, for the songs were to communicate the unspoken essence of the race. This is because Tolkien [...]