The Best Day of my Priesthood
I spent 2017 as the parish priest in a small bayou parish in south Louisiana. Their normal pastor was serving as a chaplain for the US Army for a year, and he needed someone who knew the Traditional Latin Mass. His tiny bayou parish was very unusual insofar as it was under the jurisdiction of the diocese of Houma-Thibodaux, but was 1962-sacraments-only. The bishop down there was very good to me. Like most “Latin ghettos” in other dioceses, this Latin Mass parish was found in a poor part of the state, in this case on Tiger Bayou, full of gators and ditched oil rigs. I describe Louisiana as a “Catholic Texas” and I very much fell in love with Louisiana and her people. For example, when my neighbors across the bayou found out that my sister’s family was coming out [...]
“The Office” Catholics
The Office is not a particularly edifying TV show and I would not recommend it for its secular world view. I’ve never seen the UK version of The Office and I’ve only seen a few episodes of the American version. Still, it struck me this week that the personalities (not the religious or political views) but the personalities of The Office characters seem to reflect the very personalities attracted to various movements of American Catholicism in the 21st century. Notice equal-opportunity target-practice below: JPII Catholics≈Jim These are the young Catholics who want to make Catholicism look relevant. Jim Halpert is no neo-conservative on the TV show, but his personality is exactly what young neo-conservative Catholics like to be: cool but accessible. Perhaps he is even hip, at least when compared with the stranger breeds who surround him. [...]
Traditional Latin Mass at Midnight. Christmas ‘Missa Cantata’
Filmed in Louisiana on Christmas 2016 https://youtu.be/7B869n4X37M
Why Did Jesus Really Have to Die For Us?
This is the same as my podcast but in video form. Also, the audio did not include the Question and Answer period at the end. This video on YouTube includes it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GP_ZFKwW-A
Henry Thomistic Swamp Theology
Creation and Redemption and the Bayou. Henry Thomas gives us some classic but modern Thomistic Theology on gaining wisdom in spiritual warfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUlPgIGVUs0
How to Keep Your Kids from Being Trafficked
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxWTHi73GBg
Airplane Evangelization
https://vimeo.com/180519068
What if You Sell Your Soul to Satan?
https://vimeo.com/182714199
Heaven and Hell Part II of II
A cemetery workers' thoughts on death. https://vimeo.com/178685245
Heaven and Hell part I of II
The Four Last Things from a Cemetary. https://vimeo.com/178684559