Creativity and the Immaculate Heart

Continuing along with yesterday’s post; on this Immaculate Heart Saturday, think about the ways in which you can use your creative aspirations to lead people through Mary and onward to Jesus. Mary participated in the creation of Jesus in His sacred Humanity when she said ‘Yes,’ to the Angel Gabriel and the Holy Spirit overshadowed …

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Creativity and leading souls to Jesus

Creativity can be a divine grace; with it we participate in the divine act of creation. The ultimate act is procreation, of course, but the art of writing fiction and poetry, painting and making music can also be a grace if it leads people to God.  Creativity can be therapeutic, it can also be redemptive …

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Quickie Immaculate Heart post and a pretty picture of Mama Mary

Despite numerous reminders throughout the week, I kept forgetting to compose an Immaculate Heart Saturday post for today.  I’ve actually been busy this week, spending 6-8+ hours a day working on a book. Details later. So, I’ll just leave you with this image of the Immaculate Heart I found online. Images can be devotional as …

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The Catholicpunk Manifesto (Be a militant, misfit, crazy, rebel Catholic and change the culture!)

This is a follow up to Daily Marching Orders from Mary: (Be a militant, crazy Catholic and apply your Marian Consecration!) It basically says the same thing, but provides a different background and different examples and also doesn’t reference Marian Consecration. If you’re a Catholic who read the previous post but the Marian Consecration for …

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Our Lady of Perpetual Help

I have recently been the recipient of multiple odd ocurrences of the image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (OLPH). The seeming randomness has gone beyond being mere coincidence; I think it has reached the point of being a ‘signal grace.’ I could be watching a Catholic YouTube channel and the host has images of …

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Novena of Novenas VII: Our Lady Queen of Peace and St. Joseph

Today begins the Seventh of the Nine Novenas for Justice, Peace, and Creation, and this one is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Peace and St. Joseph. It runs from August 13 through August 21, 2020. I will not post this every day as the prayers and intentions are the same for each day. I’ll just …

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If you can read this, then I am still blogging!

The domain name registration for our blogs (this one, another I barely use, and my wife’s site) became due a week ago and without hesitation we paid for another year. I really should blog more. I know I’ve said that in the past about 89,621 times, and have apologized 64,229 times for not doing so, …

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a song about porn

I keep hearing a song on a new radio station in my area that plays, get this, contemporary Catholic music that doesn’t suck (unlike most contemporary music heard at Mass, which I suspect is actually Protestant.) The station’s budget is low and thus they have no DJs. Therefore, if you want to know what that …

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Immaculate Heart of Mary and Purity

Back when I was looking around for Catholic resources for addiction recovery, I was stunned to discover that almost all of them dealt with porn, lust and sex addiction. Today is the Memorial of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, an optional Feast Day on the Church’s liturgical calendar. Mary is the refuge of those seeking …

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ARTIST 4 GOD

In another blogpost on art as a vehicle for spiritual progression I must mention my wife’s new website: ARTIST4GOD. Rose (my wife) has an extensive site detailing her work, which includes lots of nature and religious photography. Nature walks and exploration, along with prayer and going to Churches, are my personal methods for “going outside …

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