Who Woulda Thunk?

A couple of weeks ago we went to Bayonne, NJ, for a quiet day with some friends. Most of it we spent in church, a lovely place to spend a quiet day. Here are a few pictures I took inside the church itself. In the second one, you'll notice at about in the center of the photo, aomething white in a frame. That's a "humeral" veil, a vestment that goes around the shoulders of a priest...think shawl...and is one used by Bl. John Paul II when he visited here a few years ago at one of the Masses he said.

The first photo is of an icon of the Blessed Mother and Christ which is above the main altar. So is the last one.

A parish church. In Bayonne. New Jersey. Who woulda thunk? How come this doesn't get a reality series on Stoopid V?

Old Shots of Young Kids

Here are some pictures of the grand children from a while ago. I just found out how easy it is to upload these things.

Midnight at the Height of Day

This morning at least by nine
Upon the tree he had been hung
To wait upon his Father's time
To stoop from heaven down

To hear his dying cry
From midnight at height of day
Accepting death upon the tree
"Why have you abandoned me"

The Love Chapter

Has something happened in your life, or in a friend’s life, recently which has caused a radical change, a hardening of attitude toward others? The sort of thing that tends to go by the name of “growing up,” or “smelling the coffee”? Have you found yourself wondering why life has to be that way?

My wife and I are acquainted with a young woman we like and admire who has been having a hard time of it lately. Some of the things she says in passing tell of her sense of disillusionment and betrayal, of the difficulty of a recently ended relationship with a young man — a young man she loved and whom she believed loved her. Her distress is palpable. She says she is resigned to the fact that this is the only way it can be, and she must learn to live with it; to endure. Before my eyes, she is changing, becoming more sad, more hardened and cynical.

We hear much about love today. It’s a multi-billion dollar business, don’t you know. Yet, so many of us haven’t a clue. We haven’t a clue. Most of what is said and done in “the name of love”, as the popular song wails, is emptiness, and leaves us empty as well, when all is said and done. Do you wonder why?

In a rather short book called The Love Chapter, you just may discover the answer. Part of a collection of four Christian Classics this book is centered on First Corinthians 13, the chapter in St. Paul’s famous “Love” letter which begins “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love…” this book offers a collection of the sermons of one of the greatest preachers in the history of the Church. Here at THE Christian Book Corner we delight in offering books, videos, cds and other media which can help souls find the way, and then accompany souls as they journey along it. In The Love Chapter St. John Chrysostom explains the words of St. Paul to the Corinthians all those years ago in a way that speaks very clearly even today, cleanly cutting through all the garbage a hedonistic culture tends to foist upon or minds and hearts to justify its own mistakes.

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Aggie Catholics: One of The Greatest Commercials EVER!

This is delightful in most senses of the word. Well, heck, in all of them, except smell. but then I can remember the smell of the forest while watching.

Aggie Catholics: One of The Greatest Commercials EVER!