There is a new blog you all might like to add to your reading list. Helen D, a member of Catholics in Recovery , is a revert to the Church and started The Prodigal Catholic recently. It’s a great blog, full of love for the Church and her spirituality. Check it out! Are you a …
The Second Reading for the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time is one of my favorites. The part italicized used to be in the header of this blog, and was the first Bible verse I memorized. Romans 12:1-2: “I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God,to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,holy …
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An excerpt from today’s Gospel of Luke is a parable I like, as it symbolizes our changes in a way almost designed to catch an alcoholic’s attention: Luke 5:36-39; And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the …
You are embarking upon a new way of life. You are sober and have left the bars or solitary drinking behind you, and are also living (or learning to live) a Catholic life. Some people aren’t going to like that. A lot of people have this New Age-ish 1960’s or 1970’s touchy-feely view of Jesus …
The basic idea behind “Sober Catholic” is that you can use the religion and spirituality of Catholic Christianity to preserve and maintain your sobriety. Catholicism may not be your only tool, but should be the primary one. The Book of Isaiah in the Old Testament of the Bible contains many of the Hebrew prophecies concerning …
If you scroll down the sidebar and look at the “Bloggy Communities…” section you’ll notice that I’ve joined another community of Catholic blogs. Catholic Converts is a group of blogs created by, well… converts to the Catholic Faith. They offer a great community to others who have “crossed the Tiber” and have “come home to …
Luke 23:42-43 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” He replied to him, “Amen, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” The person asking Jesus to remember him in Luke’s Passion Narrative from Palm Sunday is the so-called “Good Thief”, the criminal hanging on the …
Every alcoholic eventually arrives at a bottom. It is different for each, for some it could be the loss of house, spouse, job, money, health and respect. For others it could merely be the threat of those losses. Something happens at which point the alcoholic decides, “This cannot go on.” It is that point at …
From the Gospel Reading for Saturday after Ash Wednesday: Luke 5:27-32 Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.He said to him, “Follow me.”And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house,and a large crowd of tax collectorsand others were …
From the First Reading from the Mass for Ash Wednesday, 2007: Joel 2:12-14 Yet even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, with fasting, and weeping, and mourning; Rend your hearts, not your garments, and return to the LORD, your God. For gracious and merciful is he, slow to anger, rich …