Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!

"A [preacher] who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they are necessarily reflected in his [preaching]." — BXVI

08 February 2008

Mourning and weeping and fasting...

Friday after Ash Wednesday: Isa 58.1-9 and Matt 9.14-15 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation Maybe just an innocent questio...

No, we can't. . .no, we can't!

This campaign video from the Obama Camp has been described variously as "creepy" and "cultish." I agree. It's a...

07 February 2008

When in Rome. . .?

For those who are still insisting that ashes on the forehead is somehow Divinely Ordained Sacramental Tradition and Therefore Ashes MUST Be ...

06 February 2008

Wash Your Face!

WASH YOUR FACE!!! Here's the deal: the gospel for Mass this morning reports that Jesus unambiguously condemned as hypocritical the Jewi...

05 February 2008

Carrying death...

Due to the Zombiesque effects of several days without sleep I had to bail on celebrating this morning's conventual Mass at the last minu...

04 February 2008

Fr. Philip's Ten Commandments of Confession

Fr. Philip Neri’s Ten Commandments for a Good Lenten Confession: 1. Thou shall know that thy presence in the confessional is the wondr...

03 February 2008

Beatitudes vs. Diabolicals

4 th Sunday OT: Zeph 2.3, 3.12-13; 1 Cor 1.26-31; Matt 5.1-12 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Paul Hospital & Church of the Incarnati...

02 February 2008

Die to live...

The Presentation of the Lord: Mal 3.1-4; Heb 2.14-18; Luke 2.22-32 Fr. Philip N. Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory Simeon—a righ...

01 February 2008

Ignorance is the beginning of knowing

3 rd Week OT (F): 2 Sam 11.1-17 and Mark 4.26-34 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Serra Club Mass and Church of the Incarnation The Kin...

29 January 2008

Check out the New Essays. . .

The First Splash with Dummy Excellent crop of First Essays on suppl(e)mental! Please leave comments for the students. . .they are prepared f...

28 January 2008

Poem-Videos: Billy Collins (edited)

I needed to edit these down to one to conserve space and speed up the d/l process for some readers!

Only fools call themselves Wise...

WISDOM St Thomas Aquinas: Wis 7.7-10, 15-16 and Matt 23.8-12 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great Priory The Book o...

27 January 2008

Fill the Cross with Repentance

3 rd Sunday of OT: Isa 8.23-9.3; 1 Cor 1.10-13, 17; Matt 4.12-17 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP Church of the Incarnation If you walk i...

25 January 2008

Struck Blind to See

Conversion of St Paul : 22.3-16 and Mark 16.15-18 Fr. Philip Neri Powell, OP St Albert the Great and Church of the Incarnation [NB. This...

23 January 2008

The ONLY Name Given. . .

The Goddess Rosary I'm willing to bet next month's stipend that if research like this were done on Catholics who practice various sy...

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