Saint James the Greater

I’m writing this as a way to distinguish between St. James the Greater and St. James the Less. One has a feast day which is today, July 25th. One wrote the Book of James in the New Testament. I know one of them is one of the sons of Zebedee and the brother of St. …

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The Unintended

My parents got drunk on their 25th wedding anniversary in April 1962. Nine months later I was born. My parents did this ‘later in life,’ Dad was shy of 50 and Mom had just turned 46. That’s ‘old’ to have kids even nowadays; in the early 1960s? “Ancient.” I never suspected. I recall asking my …

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Thoughts on my 21st Soberversary and St. Rita of Cascia’s day

Today is my 21st Soberversary! On this date in 2002 I had my last drink. Last year I wrote some deep and profound things on this day, given that then it was my 20th. I have nothing to add to them. Today is also the Feast day of St. Rita of Cascia, who I think …

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33 day Consecration to Mary can begin this Friday!

You can tell I’ve been reading St. Louis de Montfort. I discovered that the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary still exists, and still is managed by the Dominicans just like back in the days of St. Dominic and Bl. Alan de la Roche! (Should I have known that?) This association was mentioned quite often …

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Another story posted to Medium!

And….. here’s another little ditty I posted to Medium today: Tales Towards the Eternal Realm Are you a creative Catholic? “The Catholicpunk Manifesto” is my new book exhorting Catholics to apply their faith to change the culture for the better! Know someone, perhaps yourself, who might like Catholic devotionals for alcoholics? Please take a look …

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Filed under Me

And so I published something on Medium today!

Medium is a publishing platform where anyone with writing aspirations can sign up, write stuff and publish it where no one or maybe lots of someones will read it. You can also earn money. The trick to the latter is that you have to join their partnership program and for that, you need at least 100 followers. There’s a lot to …

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Be shepherds like the Lord

The Second Reading from the Office of Readings of the Liturgy of the Hours for today is from a homily by Saint Asterius of Amasea, bishop Emphasis is mine. You were made in the image of God. If then you wish to resemble him, follow his example. Since the very name you bear as Christians …

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Through Nothing to the Infinite: How an Atheist Lead me to God

An atheist leads me towards belief in God during a tumultuous time in my life through his use of vivid storytelling within a deeply imaginative universe. It begs the question of, “How can a non-believer help someone to believe?”  Saints and spiritual writers often say that God can bring good out of evil. Evil is …

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Sober Catholic Books UPDATE!

Recently my wife got me an early birthday present, Publisher Rocket by Dave Chesson of Kindlepreneur. It’s a book marketing and research tool that comes highly recommended by pages and pages of Google and DuckDuckGo search results. I’ve only had it a couple of days and I am thinking I should have gotten it years ago. …

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16th Bloggaversary of Sober Catholic: How I stayed sober for almost 21 years

Today marks the 16th Bloggaversary of Sober Catholic. In honor of that, I’ve edited and cleaned up a messy note I wrote who-knows-when on “The Sober Catholic Way.” It is a summary of everything I’ve been doing since I became sober on May 22, 2002. Some I do better than others.  This was originally a …

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