For those of you on Facebook, someone has created a Matt Talbot Facebook Page, about life of Venerable Matt Talbot. Go and “Like” it! 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 …
Many 12 Steppers usually scoff at “religious” solutions to addiction, and perhaps rightly so due to the low success rate (forgetting that AA has a very low success rate, too.) Maybe they also think that religious observance is pointless and is also an “easier, softer, way.” HA! I think the main reason that religious solutions …
The launch of the “revived Catholic-based recovery network” is on! I actually started it last night, on the Vigil of the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. It is called the “Matt Talbot Way of Recovery.” Although Matt Talbot is widely associated with recovery from alcoholism, his way to sobriety can be applied to all …
Today was the Solemnity of All Saints, the Feast in which the Church celebrates all Saints in Heaven, from the known (on the formal list, or canon, of Saints and Blesseds) to the unknown, (those who are in Heaven but known only to God). Therefore it occurred to me at Mass tonight that today is …
Today starts another Novena, this one to St. Therese of Lisieux, affectionately known to her devotees as “The Little Flower”. This nickname arose from her theology of “littleness”, as in doing all things, especially small, menial things, with great love and care, and also from her promise to “distribute” flowers from Heaven after her death. …
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John Blair, over at the Venerable Matt Talbot Resource Center has written that the “Official” website of Matt Talbot may be online once again. You can read about it here: A New “Official” Matt Talbot Website Forthcoming Are you a creative Catholic? “The Catholicpunk Manifesto” is my new book exhorting Catholics to apply their faith …
Terry Nelson over at Abbey-Roads has created a wonderful original painting of Matt Talbot. He also wrote a nice short piece on the virtue of temperance and the need to adjust one’s lifestyle. Never an easy task, and it is often referred to as “spiritual combat,” for there are people and forces opposed to anyone …
John Blair, of the Venerable Matt Talbot Resource Center recently posted on the disappearance of the “Official” Matt Talbot website: The “Official” Venerable Matt Talbot Website has Moved I remembered a valuable tool for retrieving a dead website, and found an archived version here: Welcome to the Matt Talbot Website courtesy of the Internet Archive: …
As today is the Solemnity of All Saints, I decided to post this nice article on Matt Talbot, the “Patron Saint of Alcoholics”: Venerable Matt Talbot (Via American Catholic.) 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 …
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John Blair of the Venerable Matt Talbot Resource Center emailed me a link for another Novena for Alcoholics . I am having problems with the link to the original site, so here is the prayer in its entirety: Memorare NovenaPetition: For all those who are addicted and for those who suffer with them. Pray Daily …