Month: June 2004

OK, everyone… I expect all of you to be glued to your television sets tonight at 9pm Eastern. That’s tipoff time for Game 5 of the NBA Finals. The smell of blood is in the air. The Lakers are ripe for picking… Personally, I expect the deathblow tonight to be delivered methodically, deliberately and overwhelmingly.…

A while back I was discussing some of Thomas Merton’s writings and felt the urge to write a bit on it. Unfortunately I don’t have the excerpt where he was speaking of what his innermost spirit was saying to him that I was working off of at this time but I think what I wrote…

This Sunday the 13th of June is the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, in the Latin so many of us grew up hearing, Corpus Christi Sunday. This was a Holy Day like so many other Holy Days, and yet for some reason, it seemed to me to be the Greatest of them…

Alicia, one of our regular commenters (or our only regular commenter), suggested a catechism by Cardinal Gasparri. It seems to be about 40-60 years old depending on the version you find. I did a search at abebooks.com and found a bunch of titles for Gasparri. The book is called Catholic Catechism and seems to run…

Went ahead and bought my copies for me and the girls today off of Barnes and Noble’s website. The three books are for 1-2 grades and First Communion, 3-5 grades and 6-8 grades and Confirmation. Since my girls are spaced just perfectly, I only needed to order 2 copies of the ones I don’t have…

Guvnur wrote about this a few days ago, but I wanted to add my two cents worth to the discussion… As a convert, and of the worst kind… zealous, I am always studying the faith. I have a pretty decent library of apologetics and theology books on my shelf for only being in the Church…

How else do you put the sighting of Scott Hahn’s books, First Comes Love, Hail Holy Queen, The Lamb’s Supper, Lord Have Mercy and Swear to God at Sam’s Club? That’s right, the secular, nothing but pop-Protestant book carrier has actually stooped to putting the books of one of the best Catholic authors on their…

Today we celebrate the mystery of the Trinity… One God, three persons. Father, Son and Holy Spirit, one Divine Nature. This is one that I like to roll around in my mind on occasion. It’s something that we will never understand until we stand before God Himself. The very fact that we celebrate this solemnity…

It’s finally happened. We Maniacs have all known it was coming. It was certainly inevitable. We have often recently marveled at his lasting this long. Ronald Reagan died today. How hard it is to grasp that. Even though he has been out of the public light for most of the past 10 years, his presence…

I refer of course to the St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism. It is amazing how enjoyable it is even as an adult. In fact I gave Fric one last week since he did not grow up Catholic and had never been exposed to it. Much to my delight he tells me that his young daughter has…